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ArticleEnvironmental science & technology2020

An Imperative Need for Research on the Role of Environmental Factors in Transmission of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19).

Guangbo Qu, Xiangdong Li, Ligang Hu, Guibin Jiang

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Article in Environmental science & technology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 148 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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148citing papers in PubMed, 5 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

148 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  3. Toxic metal exposure as a possible risk factor for COVID-19 and other respiratory infectious diseases.Food and chemical toxicology : an international journal published for the British Industrial Biological Research Association · 2020
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  4. The effect of latitude and PMEnvironmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987) · 2020
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  18. An overview for biomedical waste management during pandemic like COVID-19.International journal of environmental science and technology : IJEST · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Guangbo QuState Key Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China.ORCID 0000-0002-5220-7009
Xiangdong LiDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Ligang HuState Key Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China.ORCID 0000-0002-6213-4720
Guibin JiangState Key Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China.ORCID 0000-0002-6335-3917

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

CoronavirusBetacoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19Disease OutbreaksGlobal HealthPandemicsPneumonia, ViralSARS-CoV-2

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