Observational studies and registers. Their quality and role in modern evidence-based medicine is a research paper published in Cardiovascular Therapy and Prevention (2021). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 1.1. It has been cited 29 times, with 19 citing works in its 1-hop citation network.
The article describes the basic rules for conducting observational studies, in particular, registers. The principles of the assessment of its quality and impact on the results are discussed. The potential for evaluating therapeutic effect and side effects in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and observational studies is compared. Effects of one drug identified in RCTs and observational studies are compared.
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Base Score Contribution
0.510
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
0.614
From 11 citing papers with measurable signal
Ranked by citation count — the same ordering the engine uses when summing log1p(Cq) over citers.
DataRank blends this paper's own citation count with the influence of the papers that cite it. Here, roughly 45% comes from its base citations and 55% from the citation network (11 citing papers contributed measurable signal).
Citers are pulled from OpenAlex sorted by cited_by_count:descand capped per paper, so when the cap binds we keep the highest-signal references and the score is reproducible across reruns.
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