Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Clinical Epidemiology is 9. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-02-01 to 2024-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Updating guidance for reporting systematic reviews: development of the PRISMA 2020 statement915
The PRISMA 2020 statement: An updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews882
GRADE guidelines 26: informative statements to communicate the findings of systematic reviews of interventions452
Cochrane Rapid Reviews Methods Group offers evidence-informed guidance to conduct rapid reviews414
Logistic regression was as good as machine learning for predicting major chronic diseases219
A full systematic review was completed in 2 weeks using automation tools: a case study193
GRADE Guidelines 28: Use of GRADE for the assessment of evidence about prognostic factors: rating certainty in identification of groups of patients with different absolute risks181
Thresholds for clinical importance were established to improve interpretation of the EORTC QLQ-C30 in clinical practice and research173
GRADE guidelines: 21 part 1. Study design, risk of bias, and indirectness in rating the certainty across a body of evidence for test accuracy155
Reporting scoping reviews—PRISMA ScR extension150
Excluding non-English publications from evidence-syntheses did not change conclusions: a meta-epidemiological study149
GRADE guidelines: 21 part 2. Test accuracy: inconsistency, imprecision, publication bias, and other domains for rating the certainty of evidence and presenting it in evidence profiles and summary of f148
The revised Cochrane risk of bias tool for randomized trials (RoB 2) showed low interrater reliability and challenges in its application129
Framework for the treatment and reporting of missing data in observational studies: The Treatment And Reporting of Missing data in Observational Studies framework124
Defining Rapid Reviews: a systematic scoping review and thematic analysis of definitions and defining characteristics of rapid reviews124
Social media can have an impact on how we manage and investigate the COVID-19 pandemic120
COVID-19 coronavirus research has overall low methodological quality thus far: case in point for chloroquine/hydroxychloroquine116
No clear choice between Newcastle–Ottawa Scale and Appraisal Tool for Cross-Sectional Studies to assess methodological quality in cross-sectional studies of health-related quality of life and breast c114
Machine learning algorithms performed no better than regression models for prognostication in traumatic brain injury112
Patient Health Questionnaire-9 scores do not accurately estimate depression prevalence: individual participant data meta-analysis108
GRADE guidelines 32: GRADE offers guidance on choosing targets of GRADE certainty of evidence ratings107
Conducting high quality scoping reviews-challenges and solutions100
Quality assessment of prevalence studies: a systematic review97
A framework for identifying and mitigating the equity harms of COVID-19 policy interventions95
Many researchers were not compliant with their published data sharing statement: a mixed-methods study88
PCORnet® 2020: current state, accomplishments, and future directions85
Nearly 80 systematic reviews were published each day: Observational study on trends in epidemiology and reporting over the years 2000-201984
Ignoring competing events in the analysis of survival data may lead to biased results: a nonmathematical illustration of competing risk analysis82
Single-reviewer abstract screening missed 13 percent of relevant studies: a crowd-based, randomized controlled trial81
Mapping of reporting guidance for systematic reviews and meta-analyses generated a comprehensive item bank for future reporting guidelines81
Machine learning reduced workload with minimal risk of missing studies: development and evaluation of a randomized controlled trial classifier for Cochrane Reviews73
GRADE Guidelines 30: the GRADE approach to assessing the certainty of modeled evidence—An overview in the context of health decision-making71
Reporting and methodological quality of COVID-19 systematic reviews needs to be improved: an evidence mapping70
Restricting evidence syntheses of interventions to English-language publications is a viable methodological shortcut for most medical topics: a systematic review67
An overview of platform trials with a checklist for clinical readers67
P value–driven methods were underpowered to detect publication bias: analysis of Cochrane review meta-analyses67
Rapid review methods more challenging during COVID-19: commentary with a focus on 8 knowledge synthesis steps64
Design characteristics and statistical methods used in interrupted time series studies evaluating public health interventions: a review63
An evaluation of Cochrane Crowd found that crowdsourcing produced accurate results in identifying randomized trials59
Cochrane Centralised Search Service showed high sensitivity identifying randomized controlled trials: A retrospective analysis57
Validation of clinical prediction models: what does the “calibration slope” really measure?57
Controversy and Debate: Questionable utility of the relative risk in clinical research: Paper 1: A call for change to practice56
Tutorial on directed acyclic graphs54
Missing data is poorly handled and reported in prediction model studies using machine learning: a literature review54
Methodology over metrics: current scientific standards are a disservice to patients and society52
Clinical prediction models: diagnosis versus prognosis51
A systematic review finds Core Outcome Set uptake varies widely across different areas of health50
Missing at random assumption made more plausible: evidence from the 1958 British birth cohort50
Penalization and shrinkage methods produced unreliable clinical prediction models especially when sample size was small50
Using the full PICO model as a search tool for systematic reviews resulted in lower recall for some PICO elements49
Causal analyses of existing databases: no power calculations required49
Reporting guidelines of health research studies are frequently used inappropriately49
Methods for depicting overlap in overviews of systematic reviews: An introduction to static tabular and graphical displays48
ROC curves for clinical prediction models part 1. ROC plots showed no added value above the AUC when evaluating the performance of clinical prediction models47
Evidence-Based Research Series-Paper 1: What Evidence-Based Research is and why is it important?47
External validation of clinical prediction models: simulation-based sample size calculations were more reliable than rules-of-thumb46
GRADE guidance 24 optimizing the integration of randomized and non-randomized studies of interventions in evidence syntheses and health guidelines46
Missing data should be handled differently for prediction than for description or causal explanation46
Exclusion of studies with no events in both arms in meta-analysis impacted the conclusions45
A proposed framework to guide evidence synthesis practice for meta-analysis with zero-events studies45
Citation bias and other determinants of citation in biomedical research: findings from six citation networks44
Reporting of prognostic clinical prediction models based on machine learning methods in oncology needs to be improved44
Weekly updates of national living evidence-based guidelines: methods for the Australian living guidelines for care of people with COVID-1944
Effect estimates of COVID-19 non-pharmaceutical interventions are non-robust and highly model-dependent43
Objectively measured physical activity is associated with frailty in community-dwelling older adults: A systematic review42
GRADE guidelines 27: how to calculate absolute effects for time-to-event outcomes in summary of findings tables and Evidence Profiles41
Authors should clearly report how they derived the overall rating when applying AMSTAR 2—a cross-sectional study41
Evidence-Based Research Series-Paper 2 : Using an Evidence-Based Research approach before a new study is conducted to ensure value40
The reporting of race and/or ethnicity in the medical literature: a retrospective bibliometric analysis confirmed room for improvement39
Adverse drug reaction risks obtained from meta-analyses and pharmacovigilance disproportionality analyses are correlated in most cases39
Quality and risk of bias appraisals of systematic reviews are inconsistent across reviewers and centers38
Using GRADE in situations of emergencies and urgencies: certainty in evidence and recommendations matters during the COVID-19 pandemic, now more than ever and no matter what38
Reliability of the revised Cochrane risk-of-bias tool for randomised trials (RoB2) improved with the use of implementation instruction37
Two different invitation approaches for consecutive rounds of a Delphi survey led to comparable final outcome37
Overviews of reviews incompletely report methods for handling overlapping, discordant, and problematic data36
Key concepts in clinical epidemiology: Responsiveness, the longitudinal aspect of validity36
Quality versus Risk-of-Bias assessment in clinical research36
Methods for prospectively incorporating gender into health sciences research36
Minimal important difference estimates for patient-reported outcomes: A systematic survey35
What to do with all the AGREEs? The AGREE portfolio of tools to support the guideline enterprise35
Tools to support the automation of systematic reviews: a scoping review34
GRADE Guidance 34: update on rating imprecision using a minimally contextualized approach34
In a meta-analysis, the I-squared statistic does not tell us how much the effect size varies34
Future of evidence ecosystem series: 3. From an evidence synthesis ecosystem to an evidence ecosystem33
Believing in black boxes: machine learning for healthcare does not need explainability to be evidence-based32
PRISMA 202032
Methods to assess research misconduct in health-related research: A scoping review32
Cochrane's risk of bias tool for non-randomized studies (ROBINS-I) is frequently misapplied: A methodological systematic review31
Future of evidence ecosystem series: 1. Introduction Evidence synthesis ecosystem needs dramatic change31
Resource use during systematic review production varies widely: a scoping review30
Use of core outcome sets was low in clinical trials published in major medical journals30
Getting trustworthy guidelines into the hands of decision-makers and supporting their consideration of contextual factors for implementation globally: recommendation mapping of COVID-19 guidelines30
Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluations (GRADE) notes: extremely serious, GRADE's terminology for rating down by three levels30
Changing predictor measurement procedures affected the performance of prediction models in clinical examples30
Most healthcare interventions tested in Cochrane Reviews are not effective according to high quality evidence: a systematic review and meta-analysis29
Controversy and Debate Series on Core Outcome Sets. Paper 1: Improving the generalizability and credibility of core outcome sets (COS) by a large and international participation of diverse stakeholder29
Natural language processing was effective in assisting rapid title and abstract screening when updating systematic reviews29
GRADE guidelines 33: Addressing imprecision in a network meta-analysis29
The Swedish Hip Fracture Register and National Patient Register were valuable for research on hip fractures: comparison of two registers28
Minimal important changes and differences were estimated for Oxford hip and knee scores following primary and revision arthroplasty28
Title, abstract, and keyword searching resulted in poor recovery of articles in systematic reviews of epidemiologic practice27
Conflict of interest as ethical shorthand: understanding the range and nature of “non-financial conflict of interest” in biomedicine27
Developing trustworthy recommendations as part of an urgent response (1–2 weeks): a GRADE concept paper27
Evidence-Based Research Series-Paper 3: Using an Evidence-Based Research approach to place your results into context after the study is performed to ensure usefulness of the conclusion27
The majority of reporting guidelines are not developed with the Delphi method: a systematic review of reporting guidelines27
Effective dose 50 method as the minimal clinically important difference: Evidence from depression trials27
Global mapping of overviews of systematic reviews in healthcare published between 2000 and 2020: a bibliometric analysis26
Language restrictions in systematic reviews should not be imposed in the search strategy but in the eligibility criteria if necessary26
Meta-analyses frequently pooled different study types together: a meta-epidemiological study26
Large-scale validation of the prediction model risk of bias assessment Tool (PROBAST) using a short form: high risk of bias models show poorer discrimination26
Handling missing data in clinical research26
Time to improve the reporting of harms in randomized controlled trials26
Systematic review automation tools improve efficiency but lack of knowledge impedes their adoption: a survey26
Methods used in the selection of instruments for outcomes included in core outcome sets have improved since the publication of the COSMIN/COMET guideline25
CONSORT endorsement improves the quality of reports of randomized clinical trials in dentistry25
Bayes’ rule in diagnosis25
Different control conditions can produce different effect estimates in psychotherapy trials for depression25
Review finds core outcome set uptake in new studies and systematic reviews needs improvement25
Transparency, trust and minimizing burden to increase recruitment and retention in trials: a systematic review25
Data mining information from electronic health records produced high yield and accuracy for current smoking status24
Evidence-based medicine in times of crisis24
Harms in Systematic Reviews Paper 1: An introduction to research on harms24
Challenges in applying the GRADE approach in public health guidelines and systematic reviews: a concept article from the GRADE Public Health Group24
An observational study found large methodological heterogeneity in systematic reviews addressing prevalence and cumulative incidence24
Cochrane risk of bias tool was used inadequately in the majority of non-Cochrane systematic reviews24
COllaborative open platform E-cohorts for research acceleration in trials and epidemiology24
Evidence Based Social Science in China Paper 3: The quality of social science RCTs published from 2000–202024
Discrepancies in meta-analyses answering the same clinical question were hard to explain: a meta-epidemiological study23
The MethodologicAl STandards for Epidemiological Research (MASTER) scale demonstrated a unified framework for bias assessment23
GRADE guidance 35: update on rating imprecision for assessing contextualized certainty of evidence and making decisions23
Future of Evidence Ecosystem Series: Evidence ecosystems and learning health systems: why bother?23
The trials within cohorts design facilitated efficient patient enrollment and generalizability in oncology setting23
Future of evidence ecosystem series: 2. current opportunities and need for better tools and methods23
Methodological challenges for living systematic reviews conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic: A concept paper23
The methodological quality is insufficient in clinical practice guidelines in the context of COVID-19: systematic review22
A framework for practical issues was developed to inform shared decision-making tools and clinical guidelines22
A method for calculating the fragility index of continuous outcomes22
In network meta-analysis, most of the information comes from indirect evidence: empirical study22
AMSTAR 2 overall confidence rating: lacking discriminating capacity or requirement of high methodological quality?22
Systematic scoping review identifies heterogeneity in outcomes measured in adolescent depression clinical trials22
More than half of systematic reviews have relevant core outcome sets22
A large number of COVID-19 interventional clinical trials were registered soon after the pandemic onset: a descriptive analysis21
The quality of evidence for medical interventions does not improve or worsen: a metaepidemiological study of Cochrane reviews21
A new tool to assess Clinical Diversity In Meta‐analyses (CDIM) of interventions21
Citation screening using crowdsourcing and machine learning produced accurate results: Evaluation of Cochrane's modified Screen4Me service21
Missing data was handled inconsistently in UK prediction models: a review of method used21
An introduction to mediation analyses of randomized controlled trials21
Population median imputation was noninferior to complex approaches for imputing missing values in cardiovascular prediction models in clinical practice21
Consideration of confounding was suboptimal in the reporting of observational studies in psychiatry: a meta-epidemiological study20
Research response to coronavirus disease 2019 needed better coordination and collaboration: a living mapping of registered trials20
GRADE notes: How to use GRADE when there is “no” evidence? A case study of the expert evidence approach20
Internal-external cross-validation helped to evaluate the generalizability of prediction models in large clustered datasets20
Text-mining in electronic healthcare records can be used as efficient tool for screening and data collection in cardiovascular trials: a multicenter validation study20
Why methods matter in a meta-analysis: a reappraisal showed inconclusive injury preventive effect of Nordic hamstring exercise20
A search filter to identify pragmatic trials in MEDLINE was highly specific but lacked sensitivity20
A systematic review highlights the need to improve the quality and applicability of trials of physical therapy interventions for low back pain20
Real-time imputation of missing predictor values improved the application of prediction models in daily practice20
Use of GRADE in evidence syntheses published in high-impact-factor nutrition journals: A methodological survey20
The fragility of trial results involves more than statistical significance alone20
A systematic review and external validation of stroke prediction models demonstrates poor performance in dialysis patients20
Data and code availability statements in systematic reviews of interventions were often missing or inaccurate: a content analysis20
Methodological quality was critically low in 9/10 systematic reviews in advanced cancer patients—A methodological study20
A new method for synthesizing test accuracy data outperformed the bivariate method20
GRADE Guidance: 31. Assessing the certainty across a body of evidence for comparative test accuracy19
Key concepts in clinical epidemiology: detecting and dealing with heterogeneity in meta-analyses19
Using preprints in evidence synthesis: Commentary on experience during the COVID-19 pandemic19
Citation impact was highly variable for reporting guidelines of health research: a citation analysis19
A cautionary note on the use of the missing indicator method for handling missing data in prediction research19
Tutorial: A nontechnical explanation of the counterfactual definition of effect modification and interaction19
JBI series paper 2: tailored evidence synthesis approaches are required to answer diverse questions: a pragmatic evidence synthesis toolkit from JBI19
Simulations and directed acyclic graphs explained why assortative mating biases the prenatal negative control design19
Meta-epidemiological study of publication integrity, and quality of conduct and reporting of randomized trials included in a systematic review of low back pain19
Future of Evidence Ecosystem Series: Evidence synthesis 2.0: when systematic, scoping, rapid, living, and overviews of reviews come together19
Methodological challenges in studying the COVID-19 pandemic crisis19
Psychometric measurements of AMSTAR 2 in a sample of meta-analyses indexed in PsycINFO18
When can the Bland & Altman limits of agreement method be used and when it should not be used18
Few evaluative studies exist examining rapid review methodology across stages of conduct: a systematic scoping review18
A review of pragmatic trials found a high degree of diversity in design and scope, deficiencies in reporting and trial registry data, and poor indexing18
Logistic regression and machine learning predicted patient mortality from large sets of diagnosis codes comparably18
Many meta-analyses of rare events in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews were underpowered18
Methods and reporting of systematic reviews of comparative accuracy were deficient: a methodological survey and proposed guidance18
Approaches to addressing missing values, measurement error, and confounding in epidemiologic studies17
Differentiating between mapping reviews and scoping reviews in the evidence synthesis ecosystem17
Exercise interventions for low back pain are poorly reported: a systematic review17
AGREE II appraisals of clinical practice guidelines in rehabilitation showed poor reporting and moderate variability in quality ratings when users apply different cuff-offs: a methodological study17
Will COVID-19 result in a giant step backwards for women in academic science?17
Methodological and reporting quality in non-Cochrane systematic review updates could be improved: a comparative study17
Results dissemination from completed clinical trials conducted at German university medical centers remained delayed and incomplete. The 2014 –2017 cohort17
Quality control for crowdsourcing citation screening: the importance of assessment number and qualification set size17
SARS-CoV-2 rapid antigen tests provide benefits for epidemic control – observations from Austrian schools17
Patient-reported outcome measures in core outcome sets targeted overlapping domains but through different instruments17
Overall bias methods and their use in sensitivity analysis of Cochrane reviews were not consistent17
High prevalence of spin was found in pharmacovigilance studies using disproportionality analyses to detect safety signals: a meta-epidemiological study17
In-depth qualitative interviews identified barriers and facilitators that influenced chief investigators’ use of core outcome sets in randomised controlled trials16
A randomized trial of an editorial intervention to reduce spin in the abstract’s conclusion of manuscripts showed no significant effect16
A nontechnical explanation of the counterfactual definition of confounding16
Feasibility of national living guideline methods: The Australian Stroke Guidelines16
Integrating travel history via big data analytics under universal healthcare framework for disease control and prevention in the COVID-19 pandemic16
Adverse event recording failed to reflect potential harms: a review of trial protocols of behavioral, lifestyle and psychological therapy interventions16
Sample size, study length, and inadequate controls were the most common self-acknowledged limitations in manual therapy trials: A methodological review16
The number needed to treat for net effect (NNTnet) as a metric for measuring combined benefits and harms16
A validation study revealed differences in design and performance of MEDLINE search filters for qualitative research16
Hypothetical case replacement can be used to quantify the robustness of trial results16
Why trials lose participants: A multitrial investigation of participants’ perspectives using the theoretical domains framework16
A methodological review revealed that reporting of trials in manual therapy has not improved over time16
Effect Modifiers and Statistical Tests for Interaction in Randomized Trials16
The fragility index can be used for sample size calculations in clinical trials15
A new statistical methodology overcame the defects of the Bland–Altman method15
PRECIS-2 for retrospective assessment of RCTs in systematic reviews15
Avoiding overadjustment bias in social epidemiology through appropriate covariate selection: a primer15
A taxonomy and framework for identifying and developing actionable statements in guidelines suggests avoiding informal recommendations15
Toward a framework for the design, implementation, and reporting of methodology scoping reviews15
Clinical Epidemiology in China series. Paper 4: The reporting and methodological quality of Chinese clinical practice guidelines published between 2014 and 2018: A systematic review15
Access to data from clinical trials in the COVID-19 crisis: open, flexible, and time-sensitive15
New outcome-specific comorbidity scores excelled in predicting in-hospital mortality and healthcare charges in administrative databases15
Methods for living guidelines: early guidance based on practical experience. Paper 1: Introduction15
Conclusions from surveys may not consider important biases: a systematic survey of surveys15
Counterfactual clinical prediction models could help to infer individualized treatment effects in randomized controlled trials—An illustration with the International Stroke Trial15
Promoting effective use of patient-reported outcomes in clinical practice: themes from a “Methods Tool kit” paper series15
RIGHT for acupuncture: An extension of the RIGHT statement for clinical practice guidelines on acupuncture15
Asking questions changes health-related behavior: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis15
Extensive variability of work participation outcomes measured in randomized controlled trials: a systematic review15
Guideline developers in the United States were inconsistent in applying criteria for appropriate Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluation use15
Three behavior change theory–informed randomized studies within a trial to improve response rates to trial postal questionnaires14
A confirmatory factor analysis approach was found to accurately estimate the reliability of transition ratings14
Part I: A friendly introduction to latent class analysis14
More than one-third of Cochrane reviews had gift authors, whereas ghost authorship was rare14
Best-worst scaling identified adequate statistical methods and literature search as the most important items of AMSTAR2 (A measurement tool to assess systematic reviews)14
The development methods of official GRADE articles and requirements for claiming the use of GRADE – A statement by the GRADE guidance group14
Response changes in Delphi processes: why is it important to provide high-quality feedback to Delphi participants?14
The fragility index of practice changing clinical trials is low and highly correlated with P-values14
International alliance and AGREE-ment of 71 clinical practice guidelines on the management of critical care patients with COVID-19: a living systematic review14
A common framework of steps and criteria for prioritizing topics for evidence syntheses: a systematic review14
Applying machine learning algorithms to electronic health records to predict pneumonia after respiratory tract infection14
The UpPriority tool was developed to guide the prioritization of clinical guideline questions for updating14
Most published systematic reviews of remdesivir for COVID-19 were redundant and lacked currency14
Composite endpoints14
Study designs for comparative diagnostic test accuracy: A methodological review and classification scheme13
Patient reported outcome measures in clinical trials should be initially analyzed as continuous outcomes for statistical significance and responder analyses should be reserved as secondary analyses13
New measures improved the reporting of heterogeneity in diagnostic test accuracy reviews: a metaepidemiological study13
Challenges of evidence synthesis during the 2020 COVID pandemic: a scoping review13
Using Embase as a supplement to PubMed in Cochrane reviews differed across fields13
Preference-based instrumental variables in health research rely on important and underreported assumptions: a systematic review13
The Odds Ratio is “portable” across baseline risk but not the Relative Risk: Time to do away with the log link in binomial regression13
Nonrandomized studies using causal-modeling may give different answers than RCTs: a meta-epidemiological study13
Abstracts for reports of randomized trials of COVID-19 interventions had low quality and high spin13
Discrepancies from registered protocols and spin occurred frequently in randomized psychotherapy trials—A meta-epidemiologic study13
Systematic reviews are rarely used to inform study design - a systematic review and meta-analysis13
The problems with systematic reviews: a living systematic review13
Noncollapsibility, confounding, and sparse-data bias. Part 1: The oddities of odds13
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