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ArticleLancet (London, England)2021

Depression and anxiety disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic: knowns and unknowns.

Maxime Taquet, Emily A Holmes, Paul J Harrison

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Article in Lancet (London, England), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
42citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
11.9field-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

42 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 98 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Maxime TaquetDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7JX, UK; Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK. Electronic address: maxime.taquet@psych.ox.ac.uk.
Emily A HolmesDepartment of Psychology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Paul J HarrisonDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7JX, UK; Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK.
Karolinska Institutet · SEOxford Health NHS Foundation Trust · GBUniversity of Oxford · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

COVID-19PandemicsAnxiety DisordersDepressionHumansSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID34634251
PMCPMC9754944
OpenAlexW3202971749

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.