OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Research Synthesis Methods is 25. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Risk‐of‐bias VISualization (robvis): An R package and Shiny web app for visualizing risk‐of‐bias assessments	1575
Optimally estimating the sample standard deviation from the five‐number summary	233
Meta‐analysis of prevalence: I² statistic and how to deal with heterogeneity	119
Investigating and dealing with publication bias and other reporting biases in meta‐analyses of health research: A review	114
The orchard plot: Cultivating a forest plot for use in ecology, evolution, and beyond	104
Citationchaser: A tool for transparent and efficient forward and backward citation chasing in systematic searching	92
The effect direction plot revisited: Application of the 2019 Cochrane Handbook guidance on alternative synthesis methods	78
Introduction to PRISMA 2020 and implications for research synthesis methodologists	75
Graphical enhancements to summary receiver operating characteristic plots to facilitate the analysis and reporting of meta‐analysis of diagnostic test accuracy data	71
A historical review of publication bias	67
Beyond the forest plot: The drapery plot	58
On weakly informative prior distributions for the heterogeneity parameter in Bayesian random‐effects meta‐analysis	51
Zero‐cell corrections in random‐effects meta‐analyses	51
Graphical Representation of Overlap for OVErviews: GROOVE tool	48
Funnel plots may show asymmetry in the absence of publication bias with continuous outcomes dependent on baseline risk: presentation of a new publication bias test	47
Revisiting and expanding the meta‐analysis of variation: The log coefficient of variation ratio	42
Using artificial intelligence methods for systematic review in health sciences: A systematic review	42
Improving the reporting quality of reliability generalization meta‐analyses: The REGEMA checklist	34
Detecting publication selection bias through excess statistical significance	33
Estimating publication bias in meta‐analyses of peer‐reviewed studies: A meta‐meta‐analysis across disciplines and journal tiers	32
Methods for estimating between‐study variance and overall effect in meta‐analysis of odds ratios	30
Meta‐analytic structural equation modeling made easy: A tutorial and web application for one‐stage MASEM	30
Estimating the prevalence of missing experiments in a neuroimaging meta‐analysis	27
Identifying and managing problematic trials: A research integrity assessment tool for randomized controlled trials in evidence synthesis	26
Robust Bayesian meta‐analysis: Model‐averaging across complementary publication bias adjustment methods	26

Applying and reporting relevance, richness and rigour in realist evidence appraisals: Advancing key concepts in realist reviews	25
Creating effective interrupted time series graphs: Review and recommendations	25