J. Lindsay Oaks and colleagues' 2004 paper in Nature is peer-reviewed scientific research. Its strength is that it is the original study identifying diclofenac residues as the cause of the catastrophic vulture population decline in Pakistan, published in one of the most rigorously reviewed scientific journals in the world. Its limit is the ordinary one for a single study: its specific findings on Pakistan's vulture populations have since been extended and confirmed by further research across South Asia, which this citation alone does not cover.
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Reliability Tier1
Reliability tier 1: the original peer reviewed study in a leading scientific journal identifying the cause, later extended and confirmed by further research. NotesPeer-reviewed scientific study identifying diclofenac as the cause of vulture population decline in Pakistan, Nature, 2004.
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AuthorJ. Lindsay Oaks and others
PublisherNature
Publication Year2004
Source Typepeer-reviewed article
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This source names Asia directly: "by further research across South Asia, which this citation alone does not cover."
Source Diclofenac residues as the cause of vulture population decline in Pakistan, Nature 427J. Lindsay Oaks and others
This source names Pakistan directly: "vulture population decline in Pakistan, published in one of the most rigorously reviewed scientific journals in the world."
Source Diclofenac residues as the cause of vulture population decline in Pakistan, Nature 427J. Lindsay Oaks and others
Claims Backed By This Source (10 claims)
This source backs 10 claims across the atlas. As facts: 7 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 9 claims: 7 well-attested, 2 holds.
- Rituals, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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