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ArticleBMJ health & care informatics2025

Inflation of the journal impact factor.

Jennifer Ziegler, Barret N M Rush, Asher A Mendelson, Sylvain A Lother, Leo Celi

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Article in BMJ health & care informatics, 2025. 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. What's the impact of an impact factor? And why CONJ should stay out of the competition.Canadian oncology nursing journal = Revue canadienne de nursing oncologique · 2026
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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

5 authors.

Jennifer ZieglerDepartment of Internal Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada umzieglj@myumanitoba.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2139-3427
Barret N M RushDepartment of Internal Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Asher A MendelsonDepartment of Internal Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Sylvain A LotherDepartment of Internal Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Leo CeliDivision of Health Sciences and Tech, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Funding

Critical Care Informatics: Ethical considerations around the use and sharing of health-related dataR01EB017205 · NIBIB · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI CELI, LEO ANTHONY G, MARK, ROGER GREENWOOD · 2014 to 2021
$3.8M
NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB017205
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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Health Equity

Identifiers

PMID41073107
PMCPMC12516997

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.