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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2026

The Impact of Author Name Ambiguity on Bibliometric Validity. Comment on Ejaz et al. Bibliometric Analysis of Publications on the Omicron Variant from 2020 to 2022 in the Scopus Database Using R and VOSviewer.

Zineb Rhazzar, Khalid Ennibi, Nadia Touil

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2026. 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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0cells of the map it votes in
0citing 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

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

3 authors.

Zineb RhazzarBiomedical and Epidemiology Research Unit (URBE), Center of Virology, Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Mohammed V Military Training Hospital, Rabat 10000, Morocco.ORCID 0009-0001-6140-5373
Khalid EnnibiBiomedical and Epidemiology Research Unit (URBE), Center of Virology, Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Mohammed V Military Training Hospital, Rabat 10000, Morocco.
Nadia TouilBiomedical and Epidemiology Research Unit (URBE), Center of Virology, Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Mohammed V Military Training Hospital, Rabat 10000, Morocco.ORCID 0000-0003-4183-7758

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ejaz et al [...].

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PMID42196674
PMCPMC13206026

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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.