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ArticleScience advances2020

Mobile phone data for informing public health actions across the COVID-19 pandemic life cycle.

Nuria Oliver, Bruno Lepri, Harald Sterly, Renaud Lambiotte, Sébastien Deletaille, Marco De Nadai, Emmanuel Letouzé, Albert Ali Salah, Richard Benjamins, Ciro Cattuto and 14 more

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Article in Science advances, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 246 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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246citing papers in PubMed, 2 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

246 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

24 authors.

Nuria OliverELLIS, the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems, Alicante, Spain.
Bruno LepriDataPop Alliance, New York, NY, USA.
Harald SterlyUniversity of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Renaud LambiotteUniversity of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-0583-4595
Sébastien DeletailleRosa, Brussels, Belgium.
Marco De NadaiFondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy.
Emmanuel LetouzéDataPop Alliance, New York, NY, USA.
Albert Ali SalahDataPop Alliance, New York, NY, USA.
Richard BenjaminsTelefonica, Madrid, Spain.
Ciro CattutoUniversity of Turin, Turin, Italy.
Vittoria ColizzaINSERM, Sorbonne Université, Pierre Louis Institute of Epidemiology and Public Health, Paris, France.
Nicolas de CordesOrange Group, France.
Samuel P FraibergerWorld Bank, Washington DC, USA.
Till KoebeDataPop Alliance, New York, NY, USA.
Sune LehmannTechnical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Juan MurilloBanco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, Madrid, Spain.
Alex PentlandMassachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Phuong N PhamDataPop Alliance, New York, NY, USA.
Frédéric PivettaDalberg Data Insights, Belgium.
Jari SaramäkiAalto University, Espoo, Finland.
Samuel V ScarpinoNortheastern University, Boston, MA, USA.
Michele TizzoniUniversity of Turin, Turin, Italy.
Stefaan VerhulstThe GovLab, New York University, New York, NY, USA.
Patrick VinckDataPop Alliance, New York, NY, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

BetacoronavirusCell PhonePandemicsPublic HealthCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19HumansInfection ControlInterpersonal RelationsMovementPneumonia, ViralSARS-CoV-2Travel

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PMID32548274
PMCPMC7274807

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