Evidence map›Paper›PMID 35299597›Full record

ArticleMaritime studies : MAST2021

Assessing COVID-19's "known unknowns": potential impacts on marine plastic pollution and fishing in the South China Sea.

Michael Heazle

Erratum issuedOpen access · bronzeAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Maritime studies : MAST, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 53% 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

1 citing paper in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Michael HeazleKyoto University of Foreign Studies, Kyoto, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-8658-5860
Kyoto University of Foreign Studies · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper examines three of the COVID-19 pandemic's "known" impacts to date: its widespread and fundamental altering of government policy priorities; record low oil prices and its role in further escalating already heightened levels of strategic competition in East Asia and weakening of the existing multilateral order. The paper then uses some of the observed outcomes of these changes under the pandemic so far, in addition to additional evidence and causal linkages drawn from past research, to assess COVID-19's potential, but still unknown, longer term influence on marine plastic pollution and overfishing in the South China Sea, two of East Asia's most pressing marine environmental problems. In addition to flagging potential COVID-19 linked issues of concern in these two important policy areas, this approach also may assist further inquiry into the pandemic's still unknown potential to undermine environmental protection and regulatory efforts in other environmental issue areas.

Identifiers

PMID35299597
PMCPMC8367392
OpenAlexW3195931073

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

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.