CT.gov Completion Cohort Debt
2026-03-29 | full-registry ct.gov audit | plots, figures, and e156 bundle
Series
Cohort Project

Are newer CT.gov completion cohorts getting more transparent after two years?

A standalone public project on completion-era reporting debt, showing how older eligible cohorts drift on no-results and ghost-protocol rates over time.

2008-2012: 64.4%
2021-2024: 77.0%
Ghosts 38.8% to 46.7%
Full visibility 10.8%

Project

This project takes the reporting-debt idea directly into cohort space: every included study is already old enough to have reported, so the trend is about what still remains missing.

The recent eligible cohorts are quieter, not cleaner.

Completion-era comparison

A standalone E156 project on how two-year reporting debt and ghost protocols drift across completion cohorts.

2008-2012 no results
64.4%
Older benchmark era
2021-2024 no results
77.0%
Most recent eligible era
2021-2024 ghosts
46.7%
Neither visible
2021-2024 both visible
10.8%
Results plus publication
Completion years
COMPLETION-YEAR DRIFTNo-results and ghost-protocol rates across eligible completion cohorts0%20%40%60%80%100%20082009201020112012201320142015201620172018201920202021202220232024No results rateGhost-protocol rate
Recent eligible completion cohorts remain worse on missing results and ghost protocols than mid-registry cohorts.
The line chart is constrained to completion years with at least 1,000 eligible studies so the trend is not dominated by tiny early cohorts.
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.