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Service station: what the evidence base looks like

10 publications, 0 of them trials and 0 syntheses. This page describes the shape of that literature rather than summarising its conclusions.

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What the evidence on service station is made of Of 10 publications on this topic, the breakdown by study type: 10 other. 10other (10)
10 publications, by study type. Volume is not strength — the same count can be a settled question or a pile of commentary, and which one it is depends almost entirely on this breakdown. Harvested from PubMed and Crossref; publication type as recorded by the source.

What this literature is made of

A reasonable volume of literature, but weighted towards reviews and observational work rather than trials. That is enough to describe a phenomenon and rarely enough to establish that an intervention works.

The distinction that matters most is between synthesis and primary research. A meta-analysis pools trials and is the closest thing to a settled answer a field produces. A narrative review is one group's reading of the same material and can be selective without being dishonest. Counting them together, which most citation counts do, obscures exactly the thing you want to know.

When the service station literature was published Publication years for the 10 papers on this topic, grouped into bands from before 2015 through to 2023 onwards. 2020-20224 papers2023 onwards2 papers2015-20192 papersBefore 20152 papers
Still active. The most recent paper here is from 2026, so this is a field where an answer written today may not hold for long. Publication years as recorded by PubMed and Crossref.

How this page is built

Everything above is computed from the citations this site harvested from PubMed and Crossref, not written by hand. When the weekly harvest finds a new paper on this topic, these counts change and the characterisation changes with them. That is the point: a hand-written claim about how strong an evidence base is starts decaying the day it is written.

Publication type is taken as the source records it. That is imperfect — journals label inconsistently, and a paper indexed as a "review" may be a systematic one — so treat the bands as approximate. They are accurate enough to distinguish a trial literature from a commentary literature, which is the distinction that matters.

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The strongest work on this topic

Ordered by study design first, then recency. The full set is listed in the references below.

  1. Geographic reach and nutritional quality of foods available from mobile online food delivery service applications: novel opportunities for retail food environment surveillance — Brar K, Minaker L, 2021, journal article
  2. Nutritional Status of Young Adults Living in Sarkin Pawa, Munya Local Government Area, Niger State — Ajiboso O, 2026, journal article
  3. Farmer awareness of heavy metal contamination in urban roadside vegetables along the Accra–Tema motorway, Ghana — Boahen E, 2025, journal article
  4. The basis for placing a roadside service object in a municipal area — Oznobihina L, 2021, journal article
  5. Food Quality and Nutritional Status of Pregnant and Lactating Women in The Non-Lotted Area on the Outskirts of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso — Adama Z, Urbain Z, Jérôme S et al., 2021, journal article
  6. ZERO STATE OF SURFACE WATER QUALITY IN THE AREA OF THE PLANNED BANJA LUKA-PRIJEDOR MOTORWAY — Pešević D, Knežević N, 2020, journal article
  7. Roadside Tree Management in Urban Area for Public Safety and Properties — Hasan R, Othman N, Ismail F, 2018, journal article
  8. Effect of radio frequency heating on nutritional quality and protein solubility of corn — Hassan A, Pawelzik E, von Hoersten D, 2016, journal article
  9. Study on Business Model of Motorway Service Area Based on TOPSIS-Entropy Method — Peng F, Zhan B, 2013, journal article
  10. Offer patterns of nationally placed livers by donation service area — Lai J, Feng S, Vittinghoff E et al., 2013, journal article
How much research is there on service station?
10 publications are indexed here, of which 0 are trials and 0 are syntheses.
Does more research mean a stronger conclusion?
No. Composition matters more than volume — five randomised trials support a claim far better than fifty commentaries, and citation counts do not distinguish between them.
How current is this?
The most recent paper indexed here is from 2026. The set is refreshed weekly from PubMed and Crossref.
Why does this page not tell me the answer?
Because summarising a literature into a conclusion requires reading it, and doing that automatically is how confident nonsense gets published. This page tells you how much weight a conclusion could bear; the articles on this site do the interpreting.

References

Every citation below links to the original peer-reviewed record on PubMed or via DOI. Nothing here is a substitute for medical advice.

  1. Geographic reach and nutritional quality of foods available from mobile online food delivery service applications: novel opportunities for retail food environment surveillance Brar K, Minaker L · BMC Public Health · 2021 · Journal article DOI
  2. Nutritional Status of Young Adults Living in Sarkin Pawa, Munya Local Government Area, Niger State Ajiboso O · RESEARCH JOURNAL OF FOOD SCIENCE AND QUALITY CONTROL · 2026 · Journal article DOI
  3. Farmer awareness of heavy metal contamination in urban roadside vegetables along the Accra–Tema motorway, Ghana Boahen E · Discover Agriculture · 2025 · Journal article DOI
  4. The basis for placing a roadside service object in a municipal area Oznobihina L · E3S Web of Conferences · 2021 · Journal article DOI
  5. Food Quality and Nutritional Status of Pregnant and Lactating Women in The Non-Lotted Area on the Outskirts of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Adama Z, Urbain Z, Jérôme S, et al. · Journal of Nutrition and Food Security · 2021 · Journal article DOI
  6. ZERO STATE OF SURFACE WATER QUALITY IN THE AREA OF THE PLANNED BANJA LUKA-PRIJEDOR MOTORWAY Pešević D, Knežević N · ACTA SCIENTIFICA BALCANICA · 2020 · Journal article DOI
  7. Roadside Tree Management in Urban Area for Public Safety and Properties Hasan R, Othman N, Ismail F · Asian Journal of Quality of Life · 2018 · Journal article DOI
  8. Effect of radio frequency heating on nutritional quality and protein solubility of corn Hassan A, Pawelzik E, von Hoersten D · Food Science & Nutrition · 2016 · Journal article DOI
  9. Offer patterns of nationally placed livers by donation service area Lai J, Feng S, Vittinghoff E, et al. · Liver Transplantation · 2013 · Journal article DOI
  10. Study on Business Model of Motorway Service Area Based on TOPSIS-Entropy Method Peng F, Zhan B · Advanced Materials Research · 2013 · Journal article DOI