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SynthesisAmerican journal of men's health

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Tong Cai, Yuanshan Cui, Shaoxia Yu, Qian Li, Zhongbao Zhou, Zhenli Gao

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Synthesis in American journal of men's health. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
10citing papers in PubMed
3.7field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
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

10 citing papers in PubMed, 23 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

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Tong CaiBinzhou Medical University, Yantai, Shandong, China.ORCID 0000-0001-9416-5508
Yuanshan CuiDepartment of Urology, The Affiliated Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital of Qingdao University, Yantai, Shandong, China.ORCID 0000-0002-9810-8145
Shaoxia YuDepartment of Neurology, The Affiliated Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital of Qingdao University, Yantai, Shandong, China.
Qian LiDepartment of Research, The Affiliated Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital of Qingdao University, Yantai, Shandong, China.
Zhongbao ZhouBinzhou Medical University, Yantai, Shandong, China.
Zhenli GaoBinzhou Medical University, Yantai, Shandong, China.
Qingdao University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Studies reported that

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Identifiers

PMID32274957
PMCPMC7153190
OpenAlexW3016197636

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.