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

Disease-country cells reveal geography-specific visibility breaks inside major CT.gov condition families

Oncology, cardiovascular, and metabolic portfolios do not carry one common country pattern. Their quietest and cleanest country footprints diverge sharply once named-country cells are plotted directly.

Oncology
Cardio
Metabolic
Visible share

Dashboard

The most useful country view is disease-specific: oncology China, cardiovascular Egypt, and metabolic Denmark tell different stories.

How to read the dashboard
Oncology China
79.0%
2-year no-results
Cardio Egypt
95.9%
Selected extreme
Metabolic China
78.9%
2-year no-results
Oncology Australia visible
44.5%
Cleaner comparator
Oncology by selected country
ONCOLOGY COUNTRIES2-year no-results rate for selected oncology country footprintsUS52.6%China79.0%Spain40.4%Australia38.3%Poland26.5%
Oncology ranges from 26.5 percent in Poland to 79.0 percent in China among large named-country cells.
That spread is too wide to ignore in a disease-specific hiddenness story.
Cardiovascular by selected country
CARDIOVASCULAR COUNTRIES2-year no-results rate for selected cardiovascular country footprintsUS49.3%China79.0%Egypt95.9%Poland43.9%Australia44.7%Japan42.1%
Cardiovascular Egypt is the harshest selected cell at 95.9 percent no results.
Japan, Australia, and Poland sit in a visibly cleaner band than China or Egypt.
Metabolic by selected country
METABOLIC COUNTRIES2-year no-results rate for selected metabolic country footprintsUS58.5%China78.9%Denmark79.6%Spain58.3%
Metabolic Denmark looks almost as quiet as metabolic China despite being a very different national research environment.
That keeps the condition-country analysis from collapsing into one simple geopolitical narrative.
Read Across Projects

Across The Series

Each project isolates a different dimension of registry opacity, but the point is the contrast between them, not a single leaderboard.

Industry
CT.gov Industry Disclosure Gap

Industry-focused missing-results stock, sponsor backlogs, and structural sparsity inside CT.gov.

Sponsor Classes
CT.gov Sponsor-Class Hiddenness

Sponsor-class comparisons on rate, stock, and structural hiddenness rather than one flattened ranking.

Phases
CT.gov Phase Reporting Gap

Phase-by-phase disclosure gaps showing how silence changes along the development pathway.

Structural
CT.gov Structural Missingness

Field-level missingness across publication links, IPD statements, descriptions, and locations.

Visibility
CT.gov Evidence Visibility Gap

Results-plus-publication visibility states showing how many older trials are fully visible, partly visible, or ghosted.

Cohorts
CT.gov Completion Cohort Debt

Completion-era reporting debt showing how older eligible cohorts drift on no-results and ghost-protocol rates.

Conditions
CT.gov Condition Hiddenness Map

Keyword-classified therapeutic-area hiddenness mapping across common condition families.

Concentration
CT.gov Sponsor Backlog Concentration

Concentration and inequality analysis showing how much unresolved stock sits inside a thin sponsor slice.

Rule Eras
CT.gov Rule-Era Reporting Gap

Policy-era comparisons across pre-FDAAA, FDAAA, and later CT.gov completion cohorts.

PubMed Audit
CT.gov Publication Undercount Audit

Sample-based external PubMed NCT audit testing how often CT.gov no-link records hide an external paper trail.

Oncology
CT.gov Oncology Hiddenness

Oncology-specific CT.gov hiddenness showing where cancer-trial stock, phases, and sponsors still go quiet.

Cardiovascular
CT.gov Cardiovascular Hiddenness

Cardiovascular CT.gov hiddenness showing how heart and vascular studies remain quiet across major phases and sponsors.

Metabolic
CT.gov Metabolic Hiddenness

Metabolic CT.gov hiddenness across obesity, diabetes, and related trial portfolios with large late-phase and NA stock.

Size
CT.gov Enrollment-Size Gap

Enrollment-size gradients showing how older small trials remain much quieter than larger registered studies.

Geography
CT.gov Geography-Scale Visibility

Site and country footprint analysis showing how larger trial geographies map onto much better public visibility.

Purpose
CT.gov Design-Purpose Hiddenness

Primary-purpose and allocation analysis showing which trial intents remain most obscured on CT.gov.

Delay
CT.gov Completion-Delay Debt

Registration-to-completion delay analysis showing short-cycle studies carry the heaviest reporting debt.

Architecture
CT.gov Trial-Architecture Gap

Arm-count and intervention-count analysis showing simpler trial architectures are often the quietest.

Interventions
CT.gov Intervention-Type Gap

Intervention-family analysis showing which declared treatment modalities remain quietest on older CT.gov records.

Countries
CT.gov Country Reporting Map

Named-country visibility analysis showing large geographic divides in older CT.gov reporting debt.

Stopped
CT.gov Stopped-Trial Disclosure Gap

Final-status analysis showing how withdrawn, suspended, and terminated studies remain structurally quieter than completed trials.

Outcomes
CT.gov Outcome-Density Gap

Outcome-count and outcome-description analysis showing sparse protocols are often the quietest CT.gov segment.

Actual Fields
CT.gov Actual-Field Discipline

Closed-study actual-field analysis showing missing actual dates and counts are a strong warning sign for opacity.

US vs Global
CT.gov U.S. Versus Global Gap

Geography-bucket analysis showing how U.S.-only, mixed, and non-U.S. portfolios diverge sharply on visibility.

Modality Sponsors
CT.gov Modality Sponsor Repeaters

Intervention-family sponsor audit showing that repeat offenders change sharply once modality is held fixed.

Disease Geography
CT.gov Disease Geography Gap

Disease-family geography buckets showing how oncology, cardiovascular, and metabolic studies diverge by U.S. participation.

Condition Sponsors
CT.gov Condition Sponsor Repeaters

Condition-family sponsor audit showing who carries the biggest hiddenness stock within oncology, cardiovascular, and metabolic studies.