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 type | Papers | % | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Other | 4,802 | 68.7% | 46,247 |
| Observational | 1,284 | 18.4% | 41,164 |
| Review | 666 | 9.5% | 23,626 |
| RCT | 157 | 2.2% | 3,809 |
| Systematic Review / Meta-analysis | 80 | 1.1% | 922 |
| Clinical Trial | 2 | 0.0% | 7 |