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ArticleBritish journal of sports medicine2021

Counting publications and citations is not just irrelevant: it is an incentive that subverts the impact of clinical research.

Fionn Büttner, Clare L Ardern, Paul Blazey, Serenna Dastouri, Heather A McKay, David Moher, Karim M Khan

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Article in British journal of sports medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
–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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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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

7 authors.

Fionn BüttnerSchool of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland fionn.cleirigh-buttner@ucdconnect.ie.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5987-3063
Clare L ArdernDivision of Physiotherapy, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8102-3631
Paul BlazeyCentre for Hip Health and Mobility, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8149-9514
Serenna DastouriInstitute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Vancouver, Ontario, Canada.
Heather A McKayDeparment of Orthopaedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5158-8006
David MoherFaculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa School of Epidemiology and Public Health, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Karim M KhanCentre for Hip Health and Mobility, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9976-0258

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

BibliometricsBiomedical ResearchExerciseSports MedicineEconomicsHumansJournal Impact FactorPublic PolicyPublishingResearch Support as TopicRewardSocial ChangeTime Factorsimplementationmethodologyorthopaedicsresearchsport

Identifiers

PMID33361277
PMCPMC8208942

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Registered trials

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