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Evidence Badge System

Bibliometric signals for article cards and retrieval weighting

Badge Catalog — All Types · Tier 0 → 6
⬛ Clinical Practice Guideline ECCO 2023
This document IS a society practice guideline — highest evidence tier
⬛ Clinical Practice Guideline ASCRS
This document IS a society practice guideline — highest evidence tier
⬡ Landmark Study
Curator-designated defining paper for a clinical entity or technique
⬡ Landmark Study
Curator-designated defining paper for a clinical entity or technique
⬡ Landmark
Curator-designated defining paper for a clinical entity or technique
◆ Highly Cited · 847
Top 5% citation count within PouchRAG corpus
◆ Highly Cited · 312
Top 5% citation count within PouchRAG corpus
◆ 312 citations
Top 5% citation count within PouchRAG corpus
▲ Rising Impact
High citation velocity — top 15% citations/year for publication cohort
▲ Rising Impact
High citation velocity — top 15% citations/year for publication cohort
◈ Systematic Review
Tier 1 evidence — systematic review or meta-analysis
◈ Meta-Analysis
Tier 1 evidence — systematic review or meta-analysis
◉ Guideline-Cited ECCO · ACG · ASCRS
Referenced in major society practice guidelines — highest clinical endorsement
◉ Guideline-Cited
Referenced in ECCO, ACG, or ASCRS practice guidelines
◉ Guideline-Cited
Referenced in ECCO, ACG, or ASCRS practice guidelines
◉ Guideline
Referenced in major society practice guidelines
◎ Open Access
Full text freely available via PMC or publisher
Article Card — In Situ Demo · TPS Landmark Paper
Dis Colon Rectum · 2022 · Vol 65(4)

Twisted Pouch Syndrome: Definition, Diagnosis, and Management of a Novel Clinical Entity Following Ileal Pouch–Anal Anastomosis

Holubar SD, Merchea A, Lightner AL, et al.

We describe a series of patients with symptomatic torsion of the ileal pouch mesentery following IPAA, characterizing the clinical syndrome, diagnostic criteria, and operative strategies for correction or takedown...

◉ Guideline-Cited ECCO · ASCRS
Referenced in ECCO and ASCRS pouch management guidelines
⬡ Landmark Study
Eponymous defining paper — Twisted Pouch Syndrome
◆ Highly Cited · 94
Top 5% within PouchRAG corpus
▲ Rising Impact
High citation velocity for cohort year
◎ Open Access
Free full text via PMC
Metrics
IF 4.81 2022
Journal Impact Factor — Dis Colon Rectum 2022
CiteScore 6.2
Scopus CiteScore — citations per doc over 4 years
SJR 1.44 Q1
SCImago Journal Rank — weighted prestige score · Q1 Surgery
Eigenfactor 0.0082
Eigenfactor Score — journal influence in citation network
AIS 0.91
Article Influence Score — per-article prestige (>1.0 = above avg)
Altmetric 34
Altmetric Attention Score — news, social, policy mentions
RCR 2.41
NIH Relative Citation Ratio — field-normalized; >1.0 = above benchmark
h-index 42 1st author
Semantic Scholar h-index — first author (Holubar SD)
i10 118 1st author
i10-index — papers with ≥10 citations, first author
Corpus rank #4 centrality
Co-citation graph centrality rank within PouchRAG corpus
Article Card — Guideline Document (Tier 0)
Journal of Crohn's and Colitis · 2023

ECCO Guidelines on Therapeutics in Ulcerative Colitis: Surgical Treatment

Øresland T, Bemelman WA, Sampietro GM, Spinelli A, Windsor A, et al. (ECCO)

The European Crohn's and Colitis Organisation presents updated evidence-based guidelines on surgical management of ulcerative colitis, including timing of surgery, pouch construction, and long-term pouch surveillance...

⬛ Clinical Practice Guideline ECCO 2023
This IS an ECCO society practice guideline — corpus Tier 0
◈ Evidence Synthesis
Systematic evidence review underpinning guideline recommendations
◆ Highly Cited · 612
Top 5% within PouchRAG corpus
◎ Open Access
Free full text via publisher
Metrics
IF 8.34 2023
Journal of Crohn's and Colitis Impact Factor 2023
CiteScore 11.4
Scopus CiteScore
SJR 2.81 Q1
SCImago Journal Rank · Q1 Gastroenterology
Altmetric 187
High social and policy attention score
RCR 5.92
NIH RCR — substantially above field benchmark
Corpus rank #1 centrality
Highest co-citation centrality in PouchRAG corpus
Schema — display.badges + display.indices · Neutral curator rule
// display block — computed at corpus build time

// ── BADGES ──────────────────────────────────────────────
"badges": {

  // Tier 0: this document IS a guideline
  "is_practice_guideline": {
    "show": true,
    "society": "ECCO",
    "year": 2023
  },

  // Tier 1: cited by a guideline
  "guideline_cited": {
    "show": true,
    "sources": ["ECCO 2023", "ASCRS 2022"],
    "hero_display": true
  },

  // Tier 2: curator landmark — no weight change for curator's own papers
  "landmark": {
    "show": true,
    "rationale": "Eponymous defining paper — Twisted Pouch Syndrome"
  },

  // Tier 3: corpus-relative, curator-neutral (≥95th percentile)
  "highly_cited": {
    "show": true,
    "citation_count": 94,
    "corpus_percentile": 96
  },

  // Tier 4: velocity ≥85th pct vs year-cohort peers
  "rising_impact": {
    "show": true,
    "citations_per_year": 31.3,
    "velocity_percentile": 88
  },

  "curator_author": true,   // transparent flag — zero weight effect
  "open_access": true
},

// ── INDICES ─────────────────────────────────────────────
"indices": {

  // Journal-level (OpenAlex + Scimago)
  "journal_if":        { "value": 4.81, "year": 2022 },
  "cite_score":        { "value": 6.2 },
  "sjr":               { "value": 1.44, "quartile": "Q1" },
  "eigenfactor":       { "value": 0.0082 },
  "article_influence": { "value": 0.91 },  // >1.0 = above avg

  // Article-level (Semantic Scholar + Altmetric + NIH iCite)
  "altmetric_score":   { "value": 34,   "last_fetched": "2025-03-01" },
  "rcr":               { "value": 2.41, "source": "NIH iCite" },  // >1.0 = above field

  // Author-level (Semantic Scholar)
  "first_author_hindex":  { "value": 42, "name": "Holubar SD" },
  "first_author_i10":     { "value": 118, "name": "Holubar SD" },
  "senior_author_hindex": { "value": 38, "name": "Lightner AL" },

  // Corpus-level (graph computed)
  "corpus_centrality_rank": { "rank": 4, "of": 3000 }
}