CT.gov Evidence Visibility Gap
2026-03-29 | full-registry ct.gov audit | plots, figures, and e156 bundle
Series
Visibility Project

How often do older CT.gov trials show neither results nor a paper trail?

A standalone public project on evidence visibility states, showing how many older studies are fully visible, partly visible, or effectively ghosted.

249,507 older studies
42.7% neither visible
13.7% fully visible
30.0% publication only

Project

This project borrows the registry-first coverage logic from your other work and turns it into a visible public readout: one state grid for results, publications, both, or neither.

Ghost protocols outnumber fully visible older trials by more than three to one.

Eligible older visibility states

A standalone E156 project on how often older CT.gov studies show results, publications, both, or neither.

Neither visible
106,606
Ghost protocols
Neither rate
42.7%
Eligible older studies
Both visible
13.7%
Results plus publication
Publication only
30.0%
Paper link without results
Visibility states
EVIDENCE VISIBILITYOlder studies split into four results-publication statesNo results + No publication42.7%No results + Publication30.0%Results + Publication13.7%Results + No publication13.5%
The dominant state is neither results nor publication, while full visibility remains uncommon.
Reading results and publication links together exposes a larger hidden zone than either signal does alone.
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.