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ArticleJournal of graduate medical education2024

What the Heck Is a Journal Impact Factor Anyway? Dissemination Measures for Educators.

Gail M Sullivan, Nicole M Deiorio, Deborah Simpson, Lalena M Yarris, Anthony R Artino

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Article in Journal of graduate medical education, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
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.

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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.

Gail M Sullivanis Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Graduate Medical Education (JGME), and Associate Director for Education, Center on Aging, and Professor of Medicine, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut, USA.
Nicole M Deioriois Executive Editor, JGME, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, and Associate Dean, Student Affairs, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, Virginia, USA.
Deborah Simpsonis Deputy Editor, JGME, and Director of Education, Academic Affairs at Advocate Aurora Health, and Clinical Adjunct Professor of Family & Community Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
Lalena M Yarrisis Deputy Editor, JGME, and Professor of Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA; and.
Anthony R Artinois Deputy Editor, JGME, and Professor and Associate Dean for Evaluation and Educational Research, The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Journal Impact FactorPeriodicals as TopicHumansInformation DisseminationInternship and Residency

Identifiers

PMID38993312
PMCPMC11234319

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.