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ArticleThe Science of the total environment2020

Assessing the relationship between ground levels of ozone (O

Maria A Zoran, Roxana S Savastru, Dan M Savastru, Marina N Tautan

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Article in The Science of the total environment, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 98 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
98citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
21.2field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

98 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 249 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Maria A ZoranIT Department, National Institute of R&D for Optoelectronics, Atomistilor Street 409, MG5, Magurele-Bucharest 077125, Romania. Electronic address: mzoran@inoe.ro.
Roxana S SavastruIT Department, National Institute of R&D for Optoelectronics, Atomistilor Street 409, MG5, Magurele-Bucharest 077125, Romania.
Dan M SavastruIT Department, National Institute of R&D for Optoelectronics, Atomistilor Street 409, MG5, Magurele-Bucharest 077125, Romania.
Marina N TautanIT Department, National Institute of R&D for Optoelectronics, Atomistilor Street 409, MG5, Magurele-Bucharest 077125, Romania.
National Institute of Research and Development for Optoelectronics · RO

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper investigates the correlation between the high level of coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 infection accelerated transmission and lethality, and surface air pollution in Milan metropolitan area, Lombardy region in Italy. For January-April 2020 period, time series of daily average inhalable gaseous pollutants ozone (O

Indexed as

CoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsPandemicsPneumonia, ViralAir PollutantsAir PollutionBetacoronavirusCOVID-19HumansItalyNitrogen DioxideOzoneSARS-CoV-2Air PollutantsNitrogen DioxideOzoneAir surface nitrogen dioxide (NO(2))Air surface ozone (O(3))Climate variablesCoronavirus COVID-19NOAA satellite dataPlanetary Boundary Layer (PBL)

Identifiers

PMID32559534
PMCPMC7274116
OpenAlexW3033781545

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Registered trials

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