Research Topic · Peer-Reviewed

Clinical Trials

Clinical trials are prospective research studies that evaluate the safety, efficacy, and effectiveness of medical interventions, including drugs, biologics, devices, vaccines, and procedures, in human participants. Conducted in phases and ideally employing randomization, control groups, and blinding to limit bias, t…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 14× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2643-2811 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Clinical trials are prospective research studies that evaluate the safety, efficacy, and effectiveness of medical interventions, including drugs, biologics, devices, vaccines, and procedures, in human participants. Conducted in phases and ideally employing randomization, control groups, and blinding to limit bias, they generate the evidence required for regulatory approval and clinical practice. Rigorous design, outcome definition, ethical oversight, and statistical analysis distinguish trials from observational research and underpin reliable conclusions about treatment benefit and harm. Research grouped under this topic addresses trial methodology and the evaluation of interventions across disease areas. Methodological studies examine the early use of blinding in therapeutic research on neurological disorders and the rationale for clinical testing of new drugs, treatments, and devices before market availability. Intervention-focused work spans vaccine development and immune-response evaluation, gene therapy for heart failure, targeted antibody therapy in cancer assessed by meta-analysis, dietary and cell-therapy approaches, and toxicology and drug-safety review. Studies applying computational systems biology to toxicity testing further illustrate model-based evaluation. This peer-reviewed literature supports investigators and clinicians concerned with trial design, evidence synthesis, and the systematic assessment of therapeutic safety and efficacy.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 14 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Clinical Trials, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Model Based Research (ISSN 2643-2811).

Journal editorial board
Yoshiaki Kikuchi · Japan Yung-Yao Chen · Taiwan Yang Chen · United States

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