CT.gov Sponsor Backlog Concentration
2026-03-29 | full-registry ct.gov audit | plots, figures, and e156 bundle
Series
Concentration Project

How concentrated is the CT.gov missing-results backlog?

A standalone public project on sponsor concentration, showing how much of the missing-results backlog sits inside a relatively thin slice of sponsors.

25,584 sponsors
Top 1%: 39.6%
Top 10%: 77.4%
Gini 0.818

Project

This project uses the concentration and outlier logic from your meta-epidemiology work, but applies it to unresolved registry stock rather than effect estimates.

The backlog is broad, but not flat: a thin slice of sponsors holds most of it.

Sponsor concentration

A standalone E156 project on how a small slice of sponsors accounts for a large share of the missing-results backlog.

Lead sponsors
25,584
Eligible older backlog
Top 1% share
39.6%
Missing-results stock
Top 10% share
77.4%
Missing-results stock
Gini
0.818
Sponsor-level inequality
Backlog concentration
CONCENTRATION SHARESHow much of the missing-results backlog sits inside top sponsor slicesTop 1% sponsors39.6%Top 5% sponsors67.0%Top 10% sponsors77.4%Top 20 sponsors9.0%Top 100 sponsors25.7%Top 500 sponsors51.1%
The top 1 percent already holds nearly forty percent of the missing-results backlog.
The bucket mix is intentionally uneven because the project is comparing both percentile slices and named sponsor ranks to make the concentration concrete.
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