ArticleTrials2026
Enhancing the scope of the Trials to Publications tool by identifying ClinicalTrial.gov registry mentions in full-text.
Article in Trials, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
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.
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.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
Abstract
We have previously described a free, public web-based tool, Trials to Publications, https://arrowsmith.psych.uic.edu/cgi-bin/arrowsmith_uic/TrialPubLinking/trial_pub_link_start.cgi , which employs a machine-learning model based on title, abstract, and other metadata features to predict which publications are likely to present clinical outcome results from a given registered trial in ClinicalTrials.gov. We have now updated and expanded the scope of the tool, by extracting mentions of ClinicalTrials.gov registry numbers (NCT numbers) from the full-text of 3 online biomedical article collections (open access PubMed Central (PMC), EuroPMC, and OpenAlex), as well as retrieving biomedical publications that are mentioned within the ClinicalTrials.gov registry itself. These mentions greatly increase the number of linked publications identified by the tool and should assist those carrying out evidence syntheses as well as those studying the metascience of clinical trials.
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What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
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.