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. 2012 Jan 3;7(1):e29509. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029509

Table 8. Number of stories that could be found by traversing the related citations of PubMed.

Case Study 1 Case Study 2 Case Study 3
Before any filtration 66 stories (0.02%) 0 stories (0%) 1 story (0.0008%)
After all the filtrations 0 stories (0%) 0 stories (0%) 0 stories (0%)

Only a small number of unfiltered stories could be found by exploring related citations provided by PubMed. None of the final set of stories could be discovered by traversal of PubMed's related citations.