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ArticleJMIR serious games2025

Authors' Reply: Is the Pinball Machine a Blind Spot in Serious Games Research?

Luis Carlos Rodríguez Timaná, Javier Ferney Castillo García, Teodiano Bastos Filho, Alvaro Alexander Ocampo González, Nazly Rocio Hincapié Monsalve, Nicolas Jacobo Valencia Jimenez

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Article in JMIR serious games, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited 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

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

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

6 authors.

Luis Carlos Rodríguez TimanáFaculty of Engineering, Universidad Santiago de Cali, Calle 5 # 62-00 - Pampalinda, Santiago de Cali, 763022, Colombia, 57 3234664283.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2437-1490
Javier Ferney Castillo GarcíaFaculty of Engineering, Universidad Autónoma de Occidente, Cali, Colombia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0630-3198
Teodiano Bastos FilhoFaculty of Engineering, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Espiritu Santo, Brazil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1185-2773
Alvaro Alexander Ocampo GonzálezFaculty of Health, Universidad Santiago de Cali, Santiago de Cali, Colombia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4526-1397
Nazly Rocio Hincapié MonsalveFaculty of Engineering, Universidad Santiago de Cali, Calle 5 # 62-00 - Pampalinda, Santiago de Cali, 763022, Colombia, 57 3234664283.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0002-6481-9667
Nicolas Jacobo Valencia JimenezFaculty of Engineering, Universidad Santiago de Cali, Calle 5 # 62-00 - Pampalinda, Santiago de Cali, 763022, Colombia, 57 3234664283.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1082-556X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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PMID40173372
PMCPMC12038755

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