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ArticleAnnals of the rheumatic diseases1996

The misconduct of redundant publication.

M Doherty

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Article in Annals of the rheumatic diseases, 1996. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
10citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
–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

10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Guideline
  2. Review
  3. Article
  4. Authors and publication practices.Science and engineering ethics · 2006
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  5. Article
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  7. From nottingham to nijmegenAnnals of the rheumatic diseases · 1999
    Article
  8. Article
  9. Article
  10. Ethics in Research and Publication.Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons
    Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

M Doherty

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Duplicate Publications as TopicScientific MisconductBiomedical and Behavioral Research

Identifiers

PMID8976632
PMCPMC1010306

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.