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ArticleAmerican journal of public health2024

Inequities in Academic Publishing: Where Is the Evidence and What Can Be Done?

Meredith Loui, Steven C Fiala

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Article in American journal of public health, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
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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

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. The CUAJ trainee peer-reviewer training program Pilot evaluation of a structured peer review curriculum for Canadian urology residents and fellows.Canadian Urological Association journal = Journal de l'Association des urologues du Canada · 2026
    Article
  2. Radical Healing Approaches For Black Maternal Health: A Critical Review.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025
    Review
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.

Meredith LouiMeredith Loui is with the Department of Prevention and Community Health, the George Washington University, Washington, DC. Steven C. Fiala is with the Oregon Health Authority Public Health Division, and the Oregon Health and Science University-Portland State University School of Public Health, Portland. Steven C. Fiala is also a deputy editor for AJPH.
Steven C FialaMeredith Loui is with the Department of Prevention and Community Health, the George Washington University, Washington, DC. Steven C. Fiala is with the Oregon Health Authority Public Health Division, and the Oregon Health and Science University-Portland State University School of Public Health, Portland. Steven C. Fiala is also a deputy editor for AJPH.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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Identifiers

PMID38478868
PMCPMC10937608

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