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ArticleInternational journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology2023

Motivations for Seeking Laser Tattoo Removal and Perceived Outcomes as Reported by Justice Involved Adults.

Victoria D Ojeda, Christopher Magana, Sarah Hiller-Venegas, Laura S Romero, Arisa Ortiz

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Article in International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
17.7field-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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Analytical investigation of melanin's impact on the laser fragmentation and morphology of yellow tattoo pigments.Photochemical & photobiological sciences : Official journal of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology · 2026
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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

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Victoria D OjedaUniversity of California, San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health, La Jolla, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6455-3905
Christopher MaganaUniversity of California, San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health, La Jolla, USA.
Sarah Hiller-VenegasUniversity of California, San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health, La Jolla, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8091-9700
Laura S RomeroUniversity of California, San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, USA.
Arisa OrtizUniversity of California, San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, USA.
University of California San Diego · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The goal of this study is to describe reasons for desiring removal of unwanted tattoos and self-reported outcomes among justice-involved adults (JIA) receiving free laser tattoo removal in Southern California. Between 2016 and 2021, JIA completed voluntary anonymous surveys at baseline (

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Laser TherapyTattooingAdultFemaleHumansLasersMaleMotivationSocial Justicecommunity reentryemploymentgang tattoosjustice impactedjustice involvedlaser medicinelaser tattoo removalmental healthprobationersreentrantstattoo regrettattoo removal

Identifiers

PMID35674198
PMCPMC9669733
OpenAlexW4282919208

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Registered trials

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