Reference database and calculations for "Bioelectrical Parameters of Living Systems": 175 verified sources with species, findings and a crosswalk to the manuscript

Dataset. The verified reference database and calculation script behind the narrative review Bioelectrical Parameters of Living Systems (Rohera, 2026).

The manuscript's Availability-of-data statement undertakes to deposit this database and link it from the manuscript record. This deposit discharges that undertaking. Manuscript concept DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.22829923.

Contents

• references_verified_v1.1.csv — 175 records: author, year, title, journal, volume, pages, PMID, DOI, study type, species or preparation, key finding, and how each source is used in the manuscript.
• codebook.md — what every column means, including the two different verification levels.
• search_log.md — databases, dates, approach, and the stated limits of the search.
• worked_example_dosimetry.py — reproduces the idealised calculation in Section 5.2, with the four limitations the manuscript states written into the file.
• README.md — orientation and citation.

A crosswalk, so any citation can be checked

The column paper1_ref_number maps each record to its numbered reference in the manuscript. 141 of 175 records carry one. 34 records are background — read and verified during the work but not cited in the final text; they are kept rather than deleted, because a reference database that shows only what survived into the paper hides the selection. Four manuscript references have no indexed row because they are a book, two IEC standards and a guideline.

Verification level — read before relying on a value

Bibliographic details were checked against the PubMed or Crossref record for every entry. Content verification is a weaker claim: each quantitative value and each characterisation of a finding was checked at the level of the abstract, and at full text only where the full text was openly accessible. It was not checked against the full text of paywalled sources. The manuscript carries an explicit pre-submission condition that the author read those sources in full, and that condition is not yet discharged.

Two records added after an adversarial review, and a corrected search log

Records M10 (Burkhardt et al., DepressionDC, Lancet 2023) and M11 (Stupp et al., EF-11, Eur J Cancer 2012) were added in manuscript version 1.2. Both are trials whose results are unfavourable to electrical stimulation, and both had been omitted. An internal adversarial review found seven such omissions, all running in the same direction — toward making the author's commercial field look better founded and safer than its sources say.

Version 1.0 of the search log claimed that "null and contrary findings were sought deliberately for each electrotherapy area". That claim did not hold, and the log now says so in place of the claim, rather than being quietly amended.

Competing interests

The compiler is the founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer of Rohera Healthcare & Technology Pvt. Ltd., Pune, India, which develops a bioelectronic device, and is the named inventor and holder of granted patents relating to it. This work received no external funding; it was self-funded, which is declared as a competing interest rather than as the absence of one: no external sponsor, grant reviewer or independent body reviewed, constrained or verified it. No data from the device appear in this database, and no claim about the device is made.

Use of AI-assisted tools

Searching, bibliographic verification against indexed records, and compilation were carried out with the assistance of a large language model (Claude, Anthropic) under the author's direction. The author takes full responsibility. No AI tool is an author.