Research Letter

Construction and Application of Directed Acyclic Graphs in Leading Medical Journals

JAMA Network Open 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.53803

January 14, 2026 at 11:00 AM EST

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This cross-sectional study evaluates how directed acyclic graphs are constructed, reported, and applied for statistical adjustment across leading clinical journals.

Corresponding Author: Jian Du, PhD, Peking University, Xueyuan Road, No. 38, Beijing, Beijing 100191, China (dujian@bjmu.edu.cn).

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