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ReviewArab journal of urology2021

Alternative medicine and herbal remedies in the treatment of erectile dysfunction: A systematic review.

Kristian Leisegang, Renata Finelli

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Review in Arab journal of urology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
21citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
4.9field-weighted citation impact, top 4% 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

21 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 43 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Sexual medicine · 2025
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  18. The Efficacy of Acupuncture on Patients with Erectile Dysfunction: A Review.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2022
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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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Kristian LeisegangSchool of Natural Medicine, Faculty of Community and Health Sciences, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3003-8048
Renata FinelliAmerican Center for Reproductive Medicine, Glickman Urological & Kidney Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5926-6407
Cleveland Clinic · USUniversity of the Western Cape · ZA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

alternative medicineErectile dysfunctionherbal medicinepanax ginsengpygnogenoltribulus terrestris

Identifiers

PMID34552783
PMCPMC8451697
OpenAlexW3166067910

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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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.