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ArticleFuture virology2023

A twisting tale of misinformation: should ivermectin be approved as a treatment for COVID-19 disease?

Arman Shafiee, Mohammad Mobin Teymouri Athar, Sayed-Hamidreza Mozhgani

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In one paragraph

Article in Future virology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 31% 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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 4 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

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Arman ShafieeClinical Research Development Unit, Alborz University of Medical Sciences, Karaj, Iran.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-4399
Mohammad Mobin Teymouri AtharSchool of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1933-9659
Sayed-Hamidreza MozhganiDepartment of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Alborz University of Medical Sciences, Karaj, Iran.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4570-2252
Jahrom University of Medical Sciences · IRShahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences · IR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This editorial examines what has caused the evidence around ivermectin to be so controversial, provides a brief analysis of recently published evidence, and highlights why it is important to learn lessons from ivermectin for future re-purposed drugs.

Indexed as

antiviralCOVID-19evidence-based medicineivermectinmisinformationsocial media

Identifiers

PMID36915278
PMCPMC10005062
OpenAlexW4323669118

What Socratic holds

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Registered trials

None linked

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.