Table 1.

Summary statistics

	Control group		Treated group
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
A. Pretreatment (2015–2018)
Total citations	114.0	292.5	383.8	970.2
PubMed citations	105.8	287.0	341.9	926.5
NIH citations	51.4	195.8	194.5	721.4
PubMed publications	3.0	4.0	5.9	7.6
B. Posttreatment (2019–2021)
Total citations	47.9	175.9	147.4	439.4
PubMed citations	44.1	172.2	127.5	408.7
NIH citations	22.4	131.6	71.1	306.2
PubMed publications	3.0	4.8	5.8	8.5
C. $△ln(post)-ln(pre)$
Total citations	$-$0.87		$-$0.96
PubMed citations	$-$0.88		$-$0.97
NIH citations	$-$0.83		$-$1.01
PubMed publications	0.00		$-$0.02
Asian researchers	9,014		10,015
No. of obs.	78,086		35,140