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ArticleF1000Research2020

Using citation tracking for systematic literature searching - study protocol for a scoping review of methodological studies and a Delphi study.

Julian Hirt, Thomas Nordhausen, Christian Appenzeller-Herzog, Hannah Ewald

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Article in F1000Research, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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25citing papers in PubMed, 6 pooled it
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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

25 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines 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

4 authors.

Julian HirtDepartment of Clinical Research, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-6589-3936
Thomas NordhausenInternational Graduate Academy, Institute of Health and Nursing Science, Medical Faculty, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany.
Christian Appenzeller-HerzogUniversity Medical Library, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-7430-294X
Hannah EwaldUniversity Medical Library, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-5081-1093

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Delphi TechniqueResearch DesignScoping Reviews as TopicDatabases, FactualSystematic Reviews as TopicCitation TrackingLiterature SearchMethodsResearch MethodologyScoping ReviewSupplementary SearchSurveySystematic Review

Identifiers

PMID34631036
PMCPMC8474097

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