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Relative Citation Impact of Various Study Designs in the Health Sciences
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“…Case reports are cited only half as frequently as the original article types under discussion. These data are similar to results shown by Patsopoulos et al 5 and also relate to current viewpoints on hierarchies of evidence.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 93%
“…Case reports are cited only half as frequently as the original article types under discussion. These data are similar to results shown by Patsopoulos et al 5 and also relate to current viewpoints on hierarchies of evidence.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 93%
“…We found that librarian co-authored SRs were cited an average of 26.4 times, consistent with previous studies showing high citation rates for SRs and meta-analyses [27,28]. This is also consistent with the mean citation rate of 26.5 over 4 years reported by Royle et al in their bibliometric analysis of SRs [12].…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 92%
“…These 18 trials were significantly more likely to have accumulated at least 25 citations than articles not reporting on randomized trials. This finding is in line with previous studies on topics other than glioblastoma [54] and underlines the importance of continued support for this type of trials.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 91%
