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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2020

Laminarin is a major molecule in the marine carbon cycle.

Stefan Becker, Jan Tebben, Sarah Coffinet, Karen Wiltshire, Morten Hvitfeldt Iversen, Tilmann Harder, Kai-Uwe Hinrichs, Jan-Hendrik Hehemann

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 89 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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89citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
22.6field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

89 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 212 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Stefan BeckerMARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-9619-3542
Jan TebbenAlfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, 27570 Bremerhaven, Germany.
Sarah CoffinetMARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany.
Karen WiltshireAlfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, 27570 Bremerhaven, Germany.
Morten Hvitfeldt IversenMARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany.
Tilmann HarderAlfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, 27570 Bremerhaven, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-3173-6806
Kai-Uwe HinrichsMARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany.
Jan-Hendrik HehemannMARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany; jhhehemann@marum.de.ORCID 0000-0002-8700-2564
University of Bremen · DEAlfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Marine microalgae sequester as much CO

Indexed as

Carbon CycleCarbonCarbon DioxideChlorophyllDiatomsGlucansOceans and SeasSeawaterCarbonCarbon DioxideChlorophyllGlucanslaminarancarbon cyclediatomsdiel cycleglycanslaminarin

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PMID32170018
PMCPMC7104365
OpenAlexW3012250581

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