ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2026
Reply to Rhazzar et al. 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.
Hasan Ejaz, Hafiz Muhammad Zeeshan, Fahad Ahmad, Syed Nasir Abbas Bukhari, Naeem Anwar, Awadh Alanazi, Ashina Sadiq, Kashaf Junaid, Muhammad Atif, Khalid Omer Abdalla Abosalif and 3 more
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In one paragraphArticle 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.
0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
0citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
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 registryThe 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 literatureWho cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
4 · The recordCorrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
5 · Who and what moneyAuthors and funding
13 authors.
Hasan EjazDepartment of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Jouf University, Sakaka 72388, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-6185-2042 Hafiz Muhammad ZeeshanDepartment of Computer Sciences, National College of Business Administration and Economics, Lahore 54700, Pakistan.
Fahad AhmadDepartment of Basic Sciences, Deanship of Common First Year, Jouf University, Sakaka 72388, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0001-5269-0427 Syed Nasir Abbas BukhariDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, Jouf University, Sakaka 72388, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0001-8125-7972 Naeem AnwarAllied Health Department, College of Health and Sport Sciences, University of Bahrain, Zallaq 32038, Bahrain.ORCID 0000-0001-8638-2158 Awadh AlanaziDepartment of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Jouf University, Sakaka 72388, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-6750-4815 Ashina SadiqDepartment of Computer Science, Lahore Leads University, Lahore 54000, Pakistan.
Kashaf JunaidSchool of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-5328-4105 Muhammad AtifDepartment of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Jouf University, Sakaka 72388, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-8921-4376 Khalid Omer Abdalla AbosalifDepartment of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Jouf University, Sakaka 72388, Saudi Arabia.
Manhal Ahmed HamzaDepartment of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Omdurman Islamic University, Omdurman 14415, Sudan.ORCID 0000-0002-2473-8005 Sonia YounasHKU-Pasteur Research Pole, School of Public Health, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.ORCID 0000-0003-4958-8629 Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
6 · The paper itselfAbstract
We sincerely thank the authors of the comment for their interest in our study and for highlighting the issue of author name ambiguity in bibliometric research [...].
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