CT.gov Black-Box Sponsor Repeaters
2026-03-29 | full-registry ct.gov audit | plots, figures, and e156 bundle
Series
Black-Box Sponsors Project

Which sponsors dominate the black-box subset?

A standalone public project on named-sponsor black-box repeaters, showing that the deepest visible silence on CT.gov is concentrated in a small set of major industry portfolios.

Boehringer 755
GSK 579
Pfizer 539
Bayer 48.1%

Project

This page narrows the sponsor story to the registry's deepest visible silence state. It asks which named sponsors hold the largest stock of older studies with no results, no linked paper, and no detailed description.

The black-box sponsor table is much more industry-heavy than the broader sponsor stock tables.

Project readout

A standalone E156 project on which named sponsors dominate the older CT.gov black-box subset with no results, no linked paper, and no detailed description.

Boehringer box
755
Largest black-box stock
GSK box
579
Second largest stock
Pfizer box
539
Third largest stock
Bayer rate
48.1%
Large-sponsor black-box rate
Named-sponsor black-box stock
BLACK-BOX STOCKTop named-sponsor black-box study countsBoehringer755GlaxoSmithKline579Pfizer539Bayer462Novartis Pharmaceuticals430Hoffmann-La Roche417AstraZeneca409BMS392Sanofi340Novo Nordisk A/S297
The deepest-silence sponsor table is concentrated in a relatively short list of major industry portfolios.
That concentration is the main project finding.
Read Across Projects

Across The Series

The split projects are meant to be read together because each isolates a different dimension of registry opacity rather than forcing every question into one leaderboard.

Industry
Industry project

Industry project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Sponsor-Class
Sponsor-class project

Sponsor-class project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Phase
Phase project

Phase project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Structural Missingness
Structural missingness project

Structural missingness project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Evidence Visibility
Evidence visibility project

Evidence visibility project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Completion Cohort
Completion cohort project

Completion cohort project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Condition Hiddenness
Condition hiddenness project

Condition hiddenness project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Sponsor Concentration
Sponsor concentration project

Sponsor concentration project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Rule-Era Reporting
Rule-era reporting project

Rule-era reporting project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Publication Undercount
Publication undercount audit

Publication undercount audit from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Oncology Hiddenness
Oncology hiddenness project

Oncology hiddenness project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Cardiovascular Hiddenness
Cardiovascular hiddenness project

Cardiovascular hiddenness project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Metabolic Hiddenness
Metabolic hiddenness project

Metabolic hiddenness project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Enrollment-Size
Enrollment-size project

Enrollment-size project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Geography-Scale
Geography-scale project

Geography-scale project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Design-Purpose
Design-purpose project

Design-purpose project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Completion-Delay
Completion-delay project

Completion-delay project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Trial-Architecture
Trial-architecture project

Trial-architecture project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Intervention-Type
Intervention-type project

Intervention-type project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Country Reporting
Country reporting project

Country reporting project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Stopped-Trial
Stopped-trial project

Stopped-trial project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Outcome-Density
Outcome-density project

Outcome-density project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Actual-Field
Actual-field project

Actual-field project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Us-Versus-Global
US-versus-global project

US-versus-global project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Modality-Sponsor
Modality-sponsor project

Modality-sponsor project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Country-Condition
Country-condition project

Country-condition project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Disease-Geography
Disease-geography project

Disease-geography project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Condition-Sponsor
Condition-sponsor project

Condition-sponsor project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Country-Sponsor
Country-sponsor project

Country-sponsor project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Us-Versus-Ex-Us
US-versus-ex-US project

US-versus-ex-US project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Industry-Family
Industry-family project

Industry-family project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Risk-Adjusted Hiddenness
Risk-adjusted hiddenness

Risk-adjusted hiddenness from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Overdue Results Clock
Overdue results clock

Overdue results clock from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Publication Index Gap
Publication index gap

Publication index gap from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Probable Act/Fdaaa Debt
Probable ACT/FDAAA debt

Probable ACT/FDAAA debt from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Sponsor Excess Watchlist
Sponsor excess watchlist

Sponsor excess watchlist from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Country Excess Watchlist
Country excess watchlist

Country excess watchlist from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Condition Excess Watchlist
Condition excess watchlist

Condition excess watchlist from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Black-Box Trials
Black-box trials

Black-box trials from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Strict-Proxy Repeaters
Strict-proxy repeaters

Strict-proxy repeaters from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Sponsor Ghosts
CT.gov Sponsor Ghost Repeaters

Named-sponsor ghost-protocol watchlist showing which sponsors remain most ghosted above expectation.

Country Ghosts
CT.gov Country Ghost Watchlist

Country-linked ghost watchlist showing where deeper silence remains most elevated above expectation.

Condition Ghosts
CT.gov Condition Ghost Watchlist

Condition-family ghost watchlist showing which therapeutic portfolios are ghosted well above expectation.

Strict Black-Box
CT.gov Strict-Core Black-Box

Strict U.S.-nexus black-box tables showing where the regulated-looking deep-silence core still concentrates.