Four years on: following the pathway to real world impact of engineering research.

Michele Polese, Josep M Jornet, Lorne Hofstetter, Omid Yaghmazadeh, Goran Goranović, Jan Kloppenborg Møller, Amira Abdel-Rahman

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Article in Communications engineering, 2026. 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.

Impact in engineering research: more than a number.Communications engineering · 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

7 authors.

Michele PoleseResearch Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA. m.polese@northeastern.edu.

Josep M JornetCOE Distinguished Professor, Associate Dean, Associate Director, and Laboratory Director, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA.

Lorne HofstetterCEO 4D Surgical, Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA. lorne@4dsurgical.com.

Omid YaghmazadehAssistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boise State University, Boise, ID, USA. omidyaghmazadeh@boisestate.edu.

Goran GoranovićSenior Researcher, DTU Compute, DTU - Technical University of Denmark, Kongens, Lyngby, Denmark. gogo@dtu.dk.

Jan Kloppenborg MøllerAssociate Professor, DTU Compute, DTU - Technical University of Denmark, Kongens, Lyngby, Denmark.

Amira Abdel-RahmanAssistant Professor in the Department of Design Tech, with a joint appointment in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA. amiraa@cornell.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Identifiers

PMID42538374

DOI10.1038/s44172-026-00743-z

PMCPMC13427716

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