We read the field so you don't have to — then wrote down what it actually supports, what it doesn't, and what nobody has studied yet. Every number here is sourced, and most of the papers are free to read.
Start wherever you like. If you only read one, make it the evidence map — and if you want to make something, make it the open field.
The whole literature in one place. 4,846 papers sorted into four tiers by what the evidence supports, every published human trial listed, and a full account of how it was built and where it's weak.
Read the map → Most useful for creatorsNine places nobody has studied yet — zero papers on athletes, one on the skin microbiome, four on women's health. What you can do with each one today, plus every free paper worth reading, linked.
See what's unclaimed → One topic, in depth662 papers, three human trials, and zero studies of drinking it. What the chemistry really is, what it's genuinely good at, and the question nobody has asked in print.
Read the brief → If you're making contentThree voices you can speak in — reporter, fan, hopeful — and the two rules that actually matter. Written to give you more to say, not less.
Learn the voices → Quick referenceSearch any claim and get back what the evidence supports, the paper it came from, and a sentence you can copy and use as-is in each of the three voices. The fastest way to check yourself before you post.
Look up a claim →One number, one page. Extracts from the documents above, for when you want a single fact rather than the whole map.
Almost everything written about cold plasma for a general audience either oversells it or dismisses it. Both are easier than reading the papers. We read the papers.
What's here includes the parts that are inconvenient — the applications with no human evidence, the claims the research contradicts, and the field's own criticisms of itself. That's deliberate. A survey that only carried good news wouldn't be worth checking.
Every figure in this library traces to a named source, and you can verify the whole thing yourself in about ten minutes.
Go to europepmc.org and search "cold atmospheric plasma" restricted to title and abstract. That's the same free public database this was built from. Tick Open Access and you'll have 1,648 papers you can read in full, for nothing, today.
One warning, because it caught us out first time: an unrestricted search returns about 6,544 records, but roughly a third are about blood plasma, not cold plasma. The term "plasma medicine" alone is around 95% contaminated. Anyone quoting a much larger number for this field has probably counted blood tests.
Cold Plasma Research Library. An independent survey of the published literature on cold atmospheric plasma, compiled from Europe PMC and ClinicalTrials.gov in September 2026. Every figure is sourced and checkable.
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