independent validations/citations for unbiased?

[mdagit]

In my testing, unbiased seems to have a reliable implementation of randomization minimisation, and of course it includes a test suite of its own.
But for it to be used in research studies, it would help if there were more publications supporting it.
Right now there is (to my knowledge) just the self-published ttscience paper, and I haven't found any users from research studies citing it.

It seems that the code for minimization in unbiased is a modified version of Minirand, for which there are publications and multiple references which suggest validation and prior use:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333519589_Algorithms_for_minimization_randomization_and_the_implementation_with_an_R_package

But it is difficult to say in what ways unbiased has modified the Minirand code, so honestly a little hard to to justify it deriving reputation from it.

So my questions would be:

• Has ttscience submitted their publication to a journal?
• Are there published research articles out there that mention successful use of unbiased?
• To what extent has the unbiased code modified Minirand?

Another thought I had is that perhaps unbiased could also add support for using carat (a more recent R package than Minirand), and if it uses it as a library rather by code copy, then potential users might also gain confidence from that configuration.