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The pivot penalty in research.
Article in Nature, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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.
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.
Who cites it
11 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Interdisciplinary papers supported by disciplinary grants garner deep and broad scientific impact.PNAS nexus · 2026Article
- AI agents are 'aeroplanes for the mind': five ways to ensure that scientists are responsible pilots.Nature · 2026Article
- SciSciGPT: advancing human-AI collaboration in the science of science.Nature computational science · 2026Article
- The intersection of artificial intelligence and lung nodule research: current applications and future prospects.International journal of surgery (London, England) · 2026Article
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- Global distribution of research efforts, disease burden, and impact of US public funding withdrawal.Nature medicine · 2025Article
- Tenure and research trajectories.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- A sociological perspective on the challenges of displacing animal research within academia: the contribution of Bourdieu.NAM journal · 2025Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Scientists and inventors set the direction of their work amid evolving questions, opportunities and challenges, yet the understanding of pivots between research areas and their outcomes remains limited
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Registered trials
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.