Citations for Randomized Controlled Trials in Sepsis Literature: The Halo Effect Caused by Journal Impact Factor (original) (raw)
Fig 5
Diagnostic plots of multivariable linear regression.
The dependent variable, total citation, was not transformed. The scale-location plot shows a correlation trend between fitted values and square root of the standardized residual, indicating the violation of homoscedasticity. The Q-Q plot also shows the violation of normality.