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An example of Google.com search results to compare the number of citations between papers that contradict
- Context:
- On 3/20/2020, a paper titled, "Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin as a treatment of COVID-19: results of an open-label non-randomized clinical trial (Gautret et al.)" was published by International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, freely accessible ScienceDirect.
- On 3/30/3030, an opinion article titled, "A Rush to Judgment? Rapid Reporting and Dissemination of Results and Its Consequences Regarding the Use of Hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 (Alfred H.J. Kim)" was pubished by Annals of Internal Medicine, pointint out various flaws in Gautret et al.'s.
- Since the publication, Gautret et al. has received criticisms not just by Alfred H.J. Kim et al. within the academic community.
- A google.com search results of each paper
- Searched on 5/10/2020
- The searches were done separately by entering the full titles of the papers for respective search
- The number of citation for Gautret et al.: 646
- The number of the citations for Alfred H.J. Kim: 21
- At the moment (5/10/2020), we have not analyzed within what contexts (positive, negative, or neutral) each paper was cited for, but the discrepancy between the number of citations is large.
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