Evidence map›Paper›PMID 32905026›Full record

ReviewJournal of drug delivery science and technology2020

Pharmaceutical assessment of polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP): As excipient from conventional to controlled delivery systems with a spotlight on COVID-19 inhibition.

Mallesh Kurakula, G S N Koteswara Rao

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In one paragraph

Review in Journal of drug delivery science and technology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 158 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
158citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
19.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
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

158 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 500 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Mallesh KurakulaDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152, USA.
G S N Koteswara RaoCollege of Pharmacy, Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, Vaddeswaram, AP, 522502, India.
Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation · INUniversity of Memphis · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) is a water-soluble polymer obtained by polymerization of monomer

Indexed as

Controlled releaseConventional dosage formsCOVID 19Drug deliveryExcipientPolymerPolyvinylpyrrolidonePolyvinylpyrrolidone, PVPPovidone-iodine

Identifiers

PMID32905026
PMCPMC7462970
OpenAlexW3082219892

What Socratic 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 Socratic graph.