Research Synthesis Methods

Papers
(The median citation count of Research Synthesis Methods is 2. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Risk‐of‐bias VISualization (robvis): An R package and Shiny web app for visualizing risk‐of‐bias assessments1521
Optimally estimating the sample standard deviation from the five‐number summary229
Meta‐analysis of prevalence: I2 statistic and how to deal with heterogeneity113
Investigating and dealing with publication bias and other reporting biases in meta‐analyses of health research: A review110
The orchard plot: Cultivating a forest plot for use in ecology, evolution, and beyond101
Citationchaser: A tool for transparent and efficient forward and backward citation chasing in systematic searching89
Innovations in framework synthesis as a systematic review method79
The effect direction plot revisited: Application of the 2019 Cochrane Handbook guidance on alternative synthesis methods78
Introduction to PRISMA 2020 and implications for research synthesis methodologists71
Graphical enhancements to summary receiver operating characteristic plots to facilitate the analysis and reporting of meta‐analysis of diagnostic test accuracy data69
A historical review of publication bias64
Beyond the forest plot: The drapery plot56
On weakly informative prior distributions for the heterogeneity parameter in Bayesian random‐effects meta‐analysis50
Zero‐cell corrections in random‐effects meta‐analyses47
Graphical Representation of Overlap for OVErviews: GROOVE tool45
Funnel plots may show asymmetry in the absence of publication bias with continuous outcomes dependent on baseline risk: presentation of a new publication bias test45
Using artificial intelligence methods for systematic review in health sciences: A systematic review41
Revisiting and expanding the meta‐analysis of variation: The log coefficient of variation ratio41
Detecting publication selection bias through excess statistical significance32
Improving the reporting quality of reliability generalization meta‐analyses: The REGEMA checklist31
Estimating publication bias in meta‐analyses of peer‐reviewed studies: A meta‐meta‐analysis across disciplines and journal tiers30
Methods for estimating between‐study variance and overall effect in meta‐analysis of odds ratios29
Meta‐analytic structural equation modeling made easy: A tutorial and web application for one‐stage MASEM29
Estimating the prevalence of missing experiments in a neuroimaging meta‐analysis26
Robust Bayesian meta‐analysis: Model‐averaging across complementary publication bias adjustment methods23
Methods for population adjustment with limited access to individual patient data: A review and simulation study23
The application of AMSTAR2 in 32 overviews of systematic reviews of interventions for mental and behavioural disorders: A cross‐sectional study22
Using information‐theoretic approaches for model selection in meta‐analysis22
What every researcher should know about searching – clarified concepts, search advice, and an agenda to improve finding in academia22
Creating effective interrupted time series graphs: Review and recommendations22
Applying and reporting relevance, richness and rigour in realist evidence appraisals: Advancing key concepts in realist reviews21
Barriers and facilitators systematic reviews in health: A methodological review and recommendations for reviewers20
Identifying and managing problematic trials: A research integrity assessment tool for randomized controlled trials in evidence synthesis20
Development and validation of study filters for identifying controlled non‐randomized studies in PubMed and Ovid MEDLINE19
Lost in reviews: Looking for the involvement of stakeholders, patients, public and other non‐researcher contributors in realist reviews18
Data sharing—trialists' plans at registration, attitudes, barriers and facilitators: A cohort study and cross‐sectional survey17
ccaR: A package for assessing primary study overlap across systematic reviews in overviews17
The Kilim plot: A tool for visualizing network meta‐analysis results for multiple outcomes16
statcheck”: Automatically detect statistical reporting inconsistencies to increase reproducibility of meta‐analyses16
Variations of mixed methods reviews approaches: A case study15
What you see depends on where you sit: The effect of geographical location on web‐searching for systematic reviews: A case study15
A generalized‐weights solution to sample overlap in meta‐analysis15
Meta‐analysis of continuous outcomes: Using pseudo IPD created from aggregate data to adjust for baseline imbalance and assess treatment‐by‐baseline modification14
Outlier detection and influence diagnostics in network meta‐analysis14
Estimating the reference range from a meta‐analysis14
Alternative weighting schemes when performing matching‐adjusted indirect comparisons14
Evaluation of the comprehensiveness, accuracy and currency of the Cochrane COVID‐19 Study Register for supporting rapid evidence synthesis production14
Methodological guidance for rapid reviews in healthcare: A scoping review14
Using Monte Carlo experiments to select meta‐analytic estimators13
Equivalence of entropy balancing and the method of moments for matching‐adjusted indirect comparison13
Using collaboration networks to identify authorship dependence in meta‐analysis results13
Extracting data from graphs: A case‐study on animal research with implications for meta‐analyses13
Parametric G‐computation for compatible indirect treatment comparisons with limited individual patient data13
Applying machine classifiers to update searches: Analysis from two case studies13
Synthesis of evidence from zero‐events studies: A comparison of one‐stage framework methods13
How to decide whether a systematic review is stable and not in need of updating: Analysis of Cochrane reviews12
The median and the mode as robust meta‐analysis estimators in the presence of small‐study effects and outliers11
Resources for forwards citation searching for implementation studies in dementia care: A case study comparing Web of Science and Scopus11
Comparing machine and human reviewers to evaluate the risk of bias in randomized controlled trials11
Bibliometric study of ‘overviews of systematic reviews’ of health interventions: Evaluation of prevalence, citation and journal impact factor11
Citation tracking for systematic literature searching: A scoping review11
Quantitizing findings from qualitative studies for integration in mixed methods reviewing11
Retrospective median power, false positive meta‐analysis and large‐scale replication10
Interval estimation of the overall treatment effect in random‐effects meta‐analyses: Recommendations from a simulation study comparing frequentist, Bayesian, and bootstrap methods10
Degree irregularity and rank probability bias in network meta‐analysis10
Assessing the risk of bias in choice of search sources for environmental meta‐analyses10
A critical reflection on computing the sampling variance of the partial correlation coefficient10
Assessing context suitability (generalizability, external validity, applicability or transferability) of findings in evidence syntheses in healthcare—An integrative review of methodological guidance10
IPDmada: An R Shiny tool for analyzing and visualizing individual patient data meta‐analyses of diagnostic test accuracy9
A Bayesian approach to assessing small‐study effects in meta‐analysis of a binary outcome with controlled false positive rate9
Cumulative meta‐analysis: What works9
Epidemiology and reporting characteristics of non‐Cochrane updates of systematic reviews: A cross‐sectional study9
Study specific prediction intervals for random‐effects meta‐analysis: A tutorial9
A new taxonomy was developed for overlap across 'overviews of systematic reviews': A meta‐research study of research waste9
Reevaluation of statistically significant meta‐analyses in advanced cancer patients using the Hartung–Knapp method and prediction intervals—A methodological study9
An empirical comparison of three methods for multiple cutoff diagnostic test meta‐analysis of the Patient Health Questionnaire‐9 (PHQ‐9) depression screening tool using published data vs in9
The ScHARR LMIC filter: Adapting a low‐ and middle‐income countries geographic search filter to identify studies on preterm birth prevention and management9
Double arcsine transform not appropriate for meta‐analysis9
Reverse‐Bayes methods for evidence assessment and research synthesis9
Interactive Web‐based Data Visualization and Analysis Tool for Synthetizing on‐farm Research Networks Data8
Rapid evidence synthesis approach for limits on the search date: How rapid could it be?8
Meta‐analyzing individual participant data from studies with complex survey designs: A tutorial on using the two‐stage approach for data from educational large‐scale a8
Including non‐English language articles in systematic reviews: A reflection on processes for identifying low‐cost sources of translation support8
Utilizing radar graphs in the visualization of simulation and estimation results in network meta‐analysis8
Multivariate network meta‐analysis of survival function parameters7
Paperfetcher: A tool to automate handsearching and citation searching for systematic reviews7
Blurring the boundaries between synthesis and evaluation. A customized realist evaluative synthesis into adolescent risk behavior prevention7
Enhanced access to recommendations from the Cochrane Handbook for improving authors' judgments about risk of bias: A randomized controlled trial7
Location‐scale models for meta‐analysis7
Risk of bias assessment in preclinical literature using natural language processing7
Machine learning in systematic reviews: Comparing automated text clustering with Lingo3G and human researcher categorization in a rapid review7
Quantifying the robustness of primary analysis results: A case study on missing outcome data in pairwise and network meta‐analysis7
Examining how meta‐analytic methods perform in the presence of bias: A simulation study7
Machine learning for identifying relevant publications in updates of systematic reviews of diagnostic test studies7
The age of abundant scholarly information and its synthesis– A time when ‘just google it’ is no longer enough7
When is the evidence conclusive? Analysis of systematic reviews for which Cochrane declared that conclusions will not change with further studies6
CLUSTER searching approach to inform evidence syntheses: A methodological review6
Leveraging the opportunities of mixed methods in research synthesis: Key decisions in systematic mixed studies review methodology6
Cluster wild bootstrapping to handle dependent effect sizes in meta‐analysis with a small number of studies6
In‐depth evaluation of machine learning methods for semi‐automating article screening in a systematic review of mechanistic literature6
A search of only four key databases would identify most randomized controlled trials of acupuncture: A meta‐epidemiological study6
Improved inference for fixed‐effects meta‐analysis of 2 × 2 tables6
Estimating interactions and subgroup‐specific treatment effects in meta‐analysis without aggregation bias: A within‐trial framework6
Bayesian meta‐analysis using SAS PROC BGLIMM6
Lessons learnt: Undertaking rapid reviews on public health and social measures during a global pandemic5
The confounder matrix: A tool to assess confounding bias in systematic reviews of observational studies of etiology5
On the moments of Cochran's Q statistic under the null hypothesis, with application to the meta‐analysis of risk difference5
Additional considerations and response to ‘graphical representation of overlap for OVErviews (GROOVE tool)’5
Critical appraisal in ecology: What tools are available, and what is being used in systematic reviews?5
“It has no meaning to me.” How do researchers understand the effectiveness of literature searches? A qualitative analysis and preliminary typology of understandings5
A Q statistic with constant weights for assessing heterogeneity in meta‐analysis5
Graphical tools for visualizing the results of network meta‐analysis of multicomponent interventions5
How should we handle predatory journals in evidence synthesis? A descriptive survey‐based cross‐sectional study of evidence synthesis experts5
A technical review of three clinical trials register resources indicates where improvements to the search interfaces are needed5
Making the case for librarian expertise to support evidence synthesis for the sustainable development goals5
Systematic review of the methodological literature for integrating qualitative evidence syntheses into health guideline development5
Efficient searching for NICE public health guidelines: Would using fewer sources still find the evidence?5
Commentary to Gusenbauer and Haddaway 2020: Evaluating retrieval qualities of Google Scholar and PubMed5
Comparing methods for handling missing covariates in meta‐regression5
An evidence‐splitting approach to evaluation of direct‐indirect evidence inconsistency in network meta‐analysis5
Predicting personalised absolute treatment effects in individual participant data meta‐analysis: An introduction to splines4
Misuse of the sign test in narrative synthesis of evidence4
Inconsistencies in study eligibility criteria are common between non‐Cochrane systematic reviews and their protocols registered in PROSPERO4
Identifying evidence for five realist reviews in primary health care: A comparison of search methods4
Improving the precision of search strategies for guideline surveillance4
Reporting of Cochrane systematic review protocols with network meta‐analyses—A scoping review4
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A cautionary note on the use of G‐computation in population adjustment4
Using systems perspectives in evidence synthesis: A methodological mapping review4
A “Rapid Best‐Fit” model for framework synthesis: Using research objectives to structure analysis within a rapid review of qualitative evidence4
On the bias of complete‐ and shifting‐case meta‐regressions with missing covariates4
On ratio measures of heterogeneity for meta‐analyses4
A comparison of meta‐methods for synthesizing indirect effects4
Synthesizing cross‐design evidence and cross‐format data using network meta‐regression4
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A comparison of hypothesis tests for homogeneity in meta‐analysis with focus on rare binary events4
Identifying unreported links between ClinicalTrials.gov trial registrations and their published results4
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Response to: ‘Additional considerations and response to Graphical Representation of Overlap for OVErviews (GROOVE tool)”4
Random‐effects meta‐analysis of combined outcomes based on reconstructions of individual patient data4
Correct standard errors can bias meta‐analysis4
The NICE UK geographic search filters for MEDLINE and Embase (Ovid): Post‐development study to further evaluate precision and number‐needed‐to‐read when retrieving UK 4
Case study meta‐analysis in the social sciences. Insights on data quality and reliability from a large‐N case survey4
Visualizing the evolution of evidence: Cumulative network meta‐analyses of new generation antidepressants in the last 40 years3
Estimating the reference interval from a fixed effects meta‐analysis3
Investigation of text‐mining methodologies to aid the construction of search strategies in systematic reviews of diagnostic test accuracy—a case study3
Limits in the search date for rapid reviews of diagnostic test accuracy studies3
Why do researchers co‐author evidence syntheses with librarians? A mixed‐methods study3
Retrieving Cochrane reviews is sometimes challenging and their reporting is not always optimal3
Network meta‐analysis results against a fictional treatment of average performance: Treatment effects and ranking metric3
Training sample selection: Impact on screening automation in diagnostic test accuracy reviews3
Examining how meta‐analytic methods perform3
Improved methods to construct prediction intervals for network meta‐analysis3
Exact inference for fixed‐effects meta‐analysis of proportions3
On the double‐robustness and semiparametric efficiency of matching‐adjusted indirect comparisons3
PsychOpen CAMA: Publication of community‐augmented meta‐analyses in psychology3
Capturing the underlying distribution in meta‐analysis: Credibility and tolerance intervals3
Incorporating historical control information in ANCOVA models using the meta‐analytic‐predictive approach3
Causal assessment in evidence synthesis: A methodological review of reviews3
Meta‐regression methods to characterize evidence strength using meaningful‐effect percentages conditional on study characteristics3
Searching for medical devices – Practical guidance2
Estimation of heterogeneity variance based on a generalized Q statistic in meta‐analysis of log‐odds‐ratio2
Performance of model‐based network meta‐analysis (MBNMA) of time‐course relationships: A simulation study2
Using clinical trial registries to inform Copas selection model for publication bias in meta‐analysis2
Meta‐analyzing partial correlation coefficients using Fisher's z transformation2
Crowdsourcing the identification of studies for COVID‐19‐related Cochrane Rapid Reviews2
Facilitating open science practices for research syntheses: PreregRS guides preregistration2
Catchii: Empowering literature review screening in healthcare2
ABCMETAapp: R shiny application for simulation‐based estimation of mean and standard deviation for meta‐analysis via approximate Bayesian computation2
Comparison and validation of metadta for meta‐analysis of diagnostic test accuracy studies2
Evaluation of statistical methods used to meta‐analyse results from interrupted time series studies: A simulation study2
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The consequences of neglected confounding and interactions in mixed‐effects meta‐regression: An illustrative example2
A rule‐based approach for automatically extracting data from systematic reviews and their updates to model the risk of conclusion change2
Exploring the relevance of the effect of geographical location when searching for studies using Google Search2
A framework for synthesizing intervention evidence from multiple sources into a single certainty of evidence rating: Methodological developments from a US National Academies of S2
A non‐parametric approach for jointly combining evidence on progression free and overall survival time in network meta‐analysis2
TheCONSENSYSapproach: An instrument to supportCONtextual SENsitivityinSYStematicreviews2
More than words: Novel visualizations for evidence synthesis2
Bayesian approaches to fixed effects meta‐analysis2
A confidence interval robust to publication bias for random‐effects meta‐analysis of few studies2
Effect estimates can be accurately calculated with data digitally extracted from interrupted time series graphs2
Bias propagation in network meta‐analysis models2
Impact of searching clinical trials registers in systematic reviews of pharmaceutical and non‐pharmaceutical interventions: Reanalysis of meta‐analyses2
Kenward‐Roger–type corrections for inference methods of network meta‐analysis and meta‐regression2
Commercial funding and estimated intervention effects in randomized clinical trials: Systematic review of meta‐epidemiological studies2
Avoiding common mistakes in meta‐analysis: Understanding the distinct roles of Q, I‐squared, tau‐squared, and the prediction interval in reporting heterogeneity2
Measurement error in meta‐analysis (MEMA)—A Bayesian framework for continuous outcome data subject to non‐differential measurement error2
Feasibility and desirability of screening search results from Google Search exhaustively for systematic reviews: A cross‐case analysis2
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