The phrase "as this refers" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to clarify or specify what something relates to or indicates in a discussion or text.
Example: "The study's findings are significant, as this refers to the impact of climate change on biodiversity."
Alternatives: "as this pertains to" or "as this relates to".
The document count is one fewer than appears in the ChEMBL 13 release notes [23], as the result does not include the doc_id -1, as this refers to the unpublished dataset, which is not a valid bibo Article.
We use the word 'factor' in the methods section as this refers to the statistical output from the principal components analysis, but move on to using the term 'account' in the results and discussion sections to reflect the change from a statistical analysis to a qualitative interpretation of viewpoints.
The second library is referred as "human"; this refers to the human subset of genes that are found in common between human, mouse and dog genomes and represent core mammalian orthologs.
Otherwise known as Hiberno-English, this refers to dialects spoken across the island of Ireland.
Viewers fluent in Indian television might be able to venture a guess as to who this refers to.
As originally described, this refers to a single cause associated with a single effect (Hill 1965).
As stated above, this refers to the ten point start value, with mistakes deducted from it.
This last case has been defined as "emer" status because this refers to a strategy applicable to emergency situations.
Where "n" is used (as in n = 3), this refers to the number of independent, biologic replicate experiments performed.
Apparently that's as incomprehensible as referring to this newspaper as The E-C-onomist.
An intuitive rather than programmatic formulation, "Asia as method" refers to this ongoing project of collective subject-formation.
