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ArticleGenome biology2020

A hypothesis is a liability.

Itai Yanai, Martin Lercher

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Article in Genome biology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
27citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
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

27 citing papers in PubMed.

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  11. Make science disruptive again.Nature biotechnology · 2023
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  15. A guide to systems-level immunomics.Nature immunology · 2022
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  19. Ten simple rules for initial data analysis.PLoS computational biology · 2022
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  20. Improvisational science.Genome biology · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Itai YanaiInstitute for Computational Medicine, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, 10016, USA. itai.yanai@nyulangone.org.
Martin LercherInstitute for Computer Science & Department of Biology, Heinrich Heine University, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany. martin.lercher@hhu.de.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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Identifiers

PMID32883349
PMCPMC7650282

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