CT.gov Condition Hiddenness Map
2026-03-29 | full-registry ct.gov audit | plots, figures, and e156 bundle
Series
Condition Project

Which kinds of trials go dark most often on CT.gov?

A standalone public map of therapeutic-area hiddenness, showing where ghost protocols and reporting debt concentrate once studies are grouped into comparable condition families.

Oncology 42,344
Healthy volunteers 63.5%
Metabolic 76.2%
Infectious visible 20.6%

Project

This project uses the topic-segmentation pattern from your earlier work, but applies it to the full CT.gov registry with a dominant-family classifier built from condition text and titles.

Oncology holds the largest hidden stock, but healthy-volunteer studies are the quietest common family.

Condition-family comparison

A standalone E156 project mapping reporting debt and ghost protocols across keyword-classified therapeutic areas.

Largest family
42,344
Oncology
Quietest common family
63.5%
Healthy volunteers
Metabolic no results
76.2%
Eligible older studies
Infectious fully visible
20.6%
Highest common-family visibility
Ghost rates by family
CONDITION FAMILIESGhost-protocol rates among common keyword-classified familiesHealthy volunteers63.5%Gastrointestinal and hepatic45.1%Musculoskeletal and pain44.0%Reproductive and maternal42.6%Oncology42.5%Metabolic41.9%Renal and urology41.4%Neurology40.5%Respiratory and sleep39.9%Immunology and dermatology39.9%
Healthy volunteers sit furthest to the right, while oncology dominates on stock rather than rate.
The classifier is intentionally simple and public-facing: it is meant to surface patterns quickly, not replace a formal disease ontology.
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.