Website use and journal citations
The CONSORT website recorded averages of 49,636 page views and 8,486 visitors per month, over the last four months in 2007. Records also show that visitors have been accessing the website from over 115 different countries.
According to Essential Science Indicators (ESI), which lists the top one percent of all publications in each of the key scientific domains each publication year, the CONSORT Statement (1-3), the Explanation and Elaboration (E&E) document (4), and two CONSORT extension publications - CONSORT for Harms (5), and CONSORT for Cluster Trials (6) - are all in the top one percent.
Citations of the revised CONSORT Statement (2001) have risen steadily from 2001 to 2006, with over 1,200 citations in the last six years since publication. The CONSORT E&E document (4) has been cited over 500 times in six years.
References
1. Begg C, Cho M, Eastwood S, et al. Improving the quality of reporting of randomized controlled trials. The CONSORT statement. JAMA. 1996;276:637-9. [PMID: 0008773637]
2. Moher D, Schulz KF, Altman DG, for the CONSORT Group. The CONSORT statement: revised recommendations for improving the quality of reports of parallel group randomized trials. JAMA. 2001;285:1987-91.
3. Moher D, Schulz KF, Altman DG, for the CONSORT Group. The CONSORT statement: revised recommendations for improving the quality of reports parallel group randomized trials. Lancet. 2001;357:1191-94. [PMID: 11323066]
4. Altman DG, Schulz KF, Moher D, Egger M, Davidoff F, Elbourne D, Gotzsche P, Lang T for the CONSORT Group. The Revised CONSORT Statement for Reporting Randomized Trials: Explanation and Elaboration. Ann Intern Med 2001;134(8):663-94. [PMID: 11304107]
5. Ioannidis JP, Evans SJ, Gotzsche PC, O'Neill RT, Altman DG, Schulz K, Moher D. Better reporting of harms in randomized trials: an extension of the CONSORT statement. Ann Intern Med 2004; 141(10):781-788. [PMID: 15545678]
6. Campbell MK, Elbourne DR, Altman DG. CONSORT statement: extension to cluster randomised trials. BMJ 2004; 328(7441):702-708. [PMID: 15031246]
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