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ReviewAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI2020

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Jinsu Hong, Taehee Han, Yoo Yong Kim

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In one paragraph

Review in Animals : an open access journal from MDPI, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 103 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
103citing papers in PubMed
23.5field-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

103 citing papers in PubMed, 271 citations in OpenAlex.

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43 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

3 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Jinsu HongDepartment of Animal Science, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD 57007, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3401-3024
Taehee HanDepartment of Production Animal Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland.ORCID 0000-0003-0801-4442
Yoo Yong KimDepartment of Agricultural Biotechnology, and Research Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Korea.
Seoul National University · KRSouth Dakota State University · USUniversity of Helsinki · FI

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Edible insects have been used as an alternative protein source for food and animal feed, and the market size for edible insects has increased.

Indexed as

alternative proteinmealwormpigpoultryTenebrio molitor larvae

Identifiers

PMID33171639
PMCPMC7695176
OpenAlexW3101063359

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Registered trials

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