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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2024

The quest for an unbiased scientific impact indicator remains open.

Giacomo Vaccario, Shuqi Xu, Manuel S Mariani, Matúš Medo

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In one paragraph

Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing 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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Reply to Vaccario et al.: The role of baselines in fair and unbiased citation metric evaluation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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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

4 authors.

Giacomo VaccarioChair of Systems Design, Department of Management, Technology, and Economics, ETH Zürich, Zürich CH-8006, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-8290-2742
Shuqi XuInstitute of Dataspace, Comprehensive National Science Center, Hefei 230088, People's Republic of China.
Manuel S MarianiUniversity Research Priority Program Social Networks, Department of Business Administration, University of Zurich, Zurich CH-8050, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-1032-5821
Matúš MedoDepartment for BioMedical Research, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern CH-3008, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-8865-9085

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

PMID39348539
PMCPMC11474024

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