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ArticleAnnals of the American Association of Geographers2019

On the Validity of Validation: A Commentary on Rufat, Tate, Emrich, and Antolini's "How Valid Are Social Vulnerability Models?"

Barry Flanagan, Elaine Hallisey, J Danielle Sharpe, Caitlin E Mertzlufft, Marissa Grossman

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Article in Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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42citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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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

42 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Barry FlanaganCDC ATSDR, Geospatial Research, Analysis, and Services Program (GRASP).
Elaine HalliseyCDC ATSDR, Geospatial Research, Analysis, and Services Program (GRASP).
J Danielle SharpeCDC ATSDR, Geospatial Research, Analysis, and Services Program (GRASP).
Caitlin E MertzlufftCDC ATSDR, Geospatial Research, Analysis, and Services Program (GRASP).
Marissa GrossmanCDC ATSDR, Geospatial Research, Analysis, and Services Program (GRASP).

Funding

Intramural CDC HHS CC999999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Identifiers

PMID39624068
PMCPMC11611389

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