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ReviewThe European physical journal. E, Soft matter2025

Metareview: a survey of active matter reviews.

Michael Te Vrugt, Raphael Wittkowski

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Review in The European physical journal. E, Soft matter, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
12citing 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

12 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. What is active wetting?The European physical journal. E, Soft matter · 2026
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  6. Sociohydrodynamics: Data-driven modeling of social behavior.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  10. Recent Advances in Soft Matter.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  11. A hitchhiker's guide to active motion.The European physical journal. E, Soft matter · 2025
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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

2 authors.

Michael Te VrugtDAMTP, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0WA, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1139-3925
Raphael WittkowskiInstitut für Theoretische Physik, Center for Soft Nanoscience, Universität Münster, 48149, Münster, Germany. raphael.wittkowski@uni-muenster.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4881-9173

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the past years, the amount of research on active matter has grown extremely rapidly, a fact that is reflected in particular by the existence of more than 1000 reviews on this topic. Moreover, the field has become very diverse, ranging from theoretical studies of the statistical mechanics of active particles to applied work on medical applications of microrobots and from biological systems to artificial swimmers. This makes it very difficult to get an overview over the field as a whole. Here, we provide such an overview in the form of a metareview article that surveys the existing review articles and books on active matter. Thereby, this article provides a useful starting point for finding literature about a specific topic.

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PMID40035927
PMCPMC11880143

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