Evidence map›Paper›PMID 8520402›Full record

ReviewBMJ (Clinical research ed.)1995

Guide to the Internet. The world wide web.

M Pallen

Abstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 1995. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
12citing 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

12 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Mapping the literature of health care management: an update.Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA · 2021
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  2. Review
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  6. The internet.Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry · 2002
    Review
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  9. Genitourinary medicine and the Internet.Genitourinary medicine · 1996
    Article
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

M PallenDepartment of Medical Microbiology, St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, London.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The world wide web provides a uniform, user friendly interface to the Internet. Web pages can contain text and pictures and are interconnected by hypertext links. The addresses of web pages are recorded as uniform resource locators (URLs), transmitted by hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP), and written in hypertext markup language (HTML). Programs that allow you to use the web are available for most operating systems. Powerful on line search engines make it relatively easy to find information on the web. Browsing through the web--"net surfing"--is both easy and enjoyable. Contributing to the web is not difficult, and the web opens up new possibilities for electronic publishing and electronic journals.

Indexed as

Computer Communication NetworksInformation Storage and RetrievalMedical InformaticsPublishing

Identifiers

PMID8520402
PMCPMC2548211

What OpenQuestion holds

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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.