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ArticleRoyal Society open science2020

An overview of blockchain science and engineering.

Ghassan Karame, Michael Huth, Claire Vishik

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Article in Royal Society open science, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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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

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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

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Ghassan KarameNEC Laboratories Europe, Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2828-4071
Michael HuthImperial College London, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-9229-3055
Claire VishikIntel, Austin, TX, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7284-9669

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This is the preface to a special issue in the journal Royal Society Open Science, themed around blockchain technology. Since this is still an emergent and interdisciplinary field, we first provide a gentle introduction into that larger topic. Then, we discuss why this technology has been criticized for not being energy-efficient. Next, we provide an analysis of recent developments in blockchain research that may help with making blockchain technology truly sustainable. Finally, we highlight some of the contributions made by papers in this special issue.

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cryptographydistributed systemsnetworkstrusted computing

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PMID32742687
PMCPMC7353972

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