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Study Type Breakdown

Classification of 854 Cocoa flavanol research papers by study design, based on MeSH publication-type tags and title keywords.

654Other
107Review
68RCT
19Observational
4Systematic Review / Meta-analysis
2Clinical Trial

Overall Distribution

Classification priority: PubMed MeSH publication-type tags (most reliable, covers ~65–70 % of the corpus) → OpenAlex work type → title-keyword heuristics. Papers without a detectable study design are classified as Other.

Trends Over Time (2000–2024)

Annual paper counts by study type (2000–2024).

Summary Table

Study typePapers%Citations
Other65476.6%22,962
Review10712.5%10,225
RCT688.0%4,257
Observational192.2%1,995
Systematic Review / Meta-analysis40.5%26
Clinical Trial20.2%6

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