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ReviewJournal of herbal medicine2021

An updated knowledge of Black seed (

Md Faruque Ahmad, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmad, Syed Amir Ashraf, Hisham H Saad, Shadma Wahab, Mohammed Idreesh Khan, M Ali, Syam Mohan, Khalid Rehman Hakeem, Md Tanwir Athar

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In one paragraph

Review in Journal of herbal medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 60 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
60citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
33.9field-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

60 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 226 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Effect ofCurrent medicinal chemistry · 2025
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  4. Frontiers in nutrition · 2023
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  11. Black Cumin Seed (Food science & nutrition · 2025
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  15. On-farm dietary supplementation of black seed (Frontiers in veterinary science · 2025
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  16. Potential of Secondary Metabolite Compounds of Black Cumin Seeds (Drug design, development and therapy · 2025
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  17. International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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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

10 authors at 7 institutions in 2 countries.

Md Faruque AhmadDepartment of Clinical Nutrition, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Jazan University, Saudi Arabia.
Fakhruddin Ali AhmadDepartment of Laboratory Medicine Al-Hada and Taif Military Hospital, Saudi Arabia.
Syed Amir AshrafDept. of Clinical Nutrition, College of Applied Medical Sciences, University of Hail, Saudi Arabia.
Hisham H SaadDepartment of Clinical Nutrition, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Jazan University, Saudi Arabia.
Shadma WahabCollege of Pharmacy, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia.
Mohammed Idreesh KhanDepartment of Clinical Nutrition, College of Applied Health Sciences in Arras, Qassim University, Saudi Arabia.
M AliCollege of pharmacy, Dept. of Pharmacognosy, Jazan University, Saudi Arabia.
Syam MohanMedical Research Center, Jazan University, Jazan, Saudi Arabia.
Khalid Rehman HakeemDepartment of Biological Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Md Tanwir AtharBioactive Natural Product Laboratory, Hamdard University, India.
Jazan University · SAArmed Forces Hospital · SAJamia Hamdard · INKing Abdulaziz University · SAKing Khalid University · SAQassim University · SAUniversity of Ha'il · SA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AntioxidantBlack SeedN. sativaPharmacological propertiesPhytochemistry

Identifiers

PMID32983848
PMCPMC7501064
OpenAlexW3087198359

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

None linked

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.