Table 3.

Citation Matrix for Meta-analyses on β-glucan Supplementation Studies

Studies	He et al, 201631 16 citations	Shen et al, 201630 4 T2D citations	Hou et al, 201529 6 T2D citations	Zou et al, 201528 12 citations	Zhu et al, 201527 8 citations	Bao et al, 201426 12 citations	Tiwari and Cummins 2011,25a 22 citations
Ballesteros et al, 201534			Yes
Beck et al, 201035	Yes					Yes
Biorklund et al, 200536	Yes			Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Biorklund et al, 200814	Yes			Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Charlton et al, 201237				Yes	Yes
Cugnet-Anceau et al, 201012	Yes	Yes	Yes			Yes
Davy et al, 200238	Yes					Yes
DeNatale et al, 201239				Yes
Granfeldt et al, 200840						Yes	Yes
Johansson et al, 201441				Yes
Kabir et al, 200242	Yes	Yes	Yes
Keogh et al, 200343				Yes
Li et al, 201144	Yes
Liatis et al, 200945		Yes	Yes			Yes
Lovegrove et al, 200046	Yes			Yes	Yes
Ma et al, 201347	Yes	Yes	Yes
Maki et al, 200748						Yes
McGeoch et al, 201311						Yes
McIntosh et al, 199149				Yes	Yes		Yes
Onning et al, 199950				Yes	Yes
Queenan et al, 200751	Yes			Yes	Yes	Yes
Reyna et al, 200352			Yes
Reyna-Villasmil et al, 200753	Yes					Yes
Rondanelli et al, 201154				Yes	Yes
Saltzman et al, 200155	Yes					Yes
Stevens et al, 198556	Yes
Tighe et al, 201057	Yes
Uusitupa et al, 199258	Yes
Zhang et al, 201259	Yes			Yes

T2D, participants with type 2 diabetes only.

^aIn the meta-analysis by Tiwari and Cummins,²⁵ only 4 of the 22 citations were common to those listed here. The total number of individual citations combined for all 7 meta-analyses is 47, and 29 are cited only once (62%).