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ArticlePatterns (New York, N.Y.)2025

Why the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative is archiving public environmental data.

Eric Nost, Gretchen Gehrke, Lourdes Vera, Steve Hansen

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Article in Patterns (New York, N.Y.), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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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

1 citing paper 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

4 authors.

Eric NostDepartment of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2M7, Canada.
Gretchen GehrkeEnvironmental Data & Governance Initiative, USA.
Lourdes VeraEnvironmental Data & Governance Initiative, USA.
Steve HansenEnvironmental Data & Governance Initiative, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Public data help researchers and civic organizations develop solutions and advance accountability around environmental challenges but are vulnerable to political threats. While the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative archives data to ensure their availability, we also situate data within their political and economic contexts to support good scientific practice and democratic knowledge production for environmental justice.

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PMID39896262
PMCPMC11783871

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