OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Research Synthesis Methods is 7. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Facilitating open science practices for research syntheses: PreregRS guides preregistration	264
Meta‐analyses of partial correlations are biased: Detection and solutions	226
Assessment of key characteristics, methodology, and effect size measures used in meta‐analysis of human‐health‐related animal studies	143
A mapping exercise using automated techniques to develop a search strategy to identify systematic review tools	110
The age of abundant scholarly information and its synthesis– A time when ‘just google it’ is no longer enough	108
Towards the automatic risk of bias assessment on randomized controlled trials: A comparison of RobotReviewer and humans	80
Reported methodological quality of medical systematic reviews: Development of an assessment tool (ReMarQ) and meta-research study	63
An investigation of the impact of using contrast- and arm-synthesis models for network meta-analysis	62
What are the best methods for rapid reviews of the research evidence? A systematic review of reviews and primary studies	52
Advice for improving the reproducibility of data extraction in meta‐analysis	51
Including non‐English language articles in systematic reviews: A reflection on processes for identifying low‐cost sources of translation support	48
Accuracy of conversion formula for effect sizes: A Monte Carlo simulation	45
Issue Information	40
Bayesian meta‐analysis usingSAS PROC BGLIMM	38
Retrieving Cochrane reviews is sometimes challenging and their reporting is not always optimal	36
Correct standard errors can bias meta‐analysis	33
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Reporting of Cochrane systematic review protocols with network meta‐analyses—A scoping review	29
Network meta analysis to predict the efficacy of an approved treatment in a new indication	28
Synthesis of depression outcomes reported on different scales: A comparison of methods for modelling mean differences	27
Methods for population adjustment with limited access to individual patient data: A review and simulation study	25
CausalMetaR: An R package for performing causally interpretable meta-analyses	22
A comprehensive systematic review dataset is a rich resource for training and evaluation of AI systems for title and abstract screening	21
Fast‐and‐frugal decision tree for the rapid critical appraisal of systematic reviews	21

Capturing causal claims: A fine-tuned text mining model for extracting causal sentences from social science papers	21
Bias propagation in network meta‐analysis models	21
Regarding approaches to simulating random‐effects	20
Data extraction for evidence synthesis using a large language model: A proof‐of‐concept study	20
Calculating the power of a planned individual participant data meta‐analysis to examine prognostic factor effects for a binary outcome	19
Bayesian Federated Inference for regression models based on non-shared medical center data	18
Graphical tools for visualizing the results of network meta‐analysis of multicomponent interventions	17
Selecting a specialized education database for literature reviews and evidence synthesis projects	17
Issue Information	17
How to plan and manage an individual participant data meta‐analysis. An illustrative toolkit	17
Sensitivity analysis for reporting bias on the time-dependent summary receiver operating characteristics curve in meta-analysis of prognosis studies with time-to-event outcomes	16
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Cumulative meta‐analysis: What works	16
Parametric G‐computation for compatible indirect treatment comparisons with limited individual patient data	16
Evaluation of statistical methods used to meta‐analyse results from interrupted time series studies: A simulation study	16
Issue Information	16
Inclusive critical appraisal of qualitative and quantitative findings in evidence synthesis	15
Critical appraisal tools used in systematic reviews of in vitro cell culture studies: A methodological study	15
Impact of trial attrition rates on treatment effect estimates in chronic inflammatory diseases: A meta‐epidemiological study	15
Using qualitative comparative analysis as a mixed methods synthesis in systematic mixed studies reviews: Guidance and a worked example	15
Missingness mechanism messiness in meta‐analysis: A response to “The importance of plausible data‐generating mechanisms in simulation studies”	15
Validation of large language models (Llama 3 and ChatGPT-4o mini) for title and abstract screening in biomedical systematic reviews	14
Bibliometric study of ‘overviews of systematic reviews’ of health interventions: Evaluation of prevalence, citation and journal impact factor	14
Six ways to handle dependent effect sizes in meta-analytic structural equation modeling: Is there a gold standard?	14
Enhanced access to recommendations from the Cochrane Handbook for improving authors' judgments about risk of bias: A randomized controlled trial	14
Twenty years of network meta‐analysis: Continuing controversies and recent developments	14
Double arcsine transform not appropriate for meta‐analysis	13
A semiparametric approach for meta‐analysis of diagnostic accuracy studies with multiple cut‐offs	13
Population adjusted‐indirect comparisons in health technology assessment: A methodological systematic review	13
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Causally interpretable meta‐analysis: Clearly defined causal effects and two case studies	13
A practical guide to evaluating sensitivity of literature search strings for systematic reviews using relative recall	12
RIMeta: An R shiny tool for estimating the reference interval from a meta‐analysis	12
Response to Gusenbauer M, Haddaway NR “What every researcher should know about searching – Clarified concepts, search advice, and an agenda to improve finding in academia”	12
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Issue Information	11
Pitfalls in choosing data examples for methodological work: Bayesian approaches to a fixed effects meta‐analysis of zinc lozenges for the common cold	11
Reduce, reuse, recycle: Introducing MetaPipeX, a framework for analyses of multi‐lab data	10
Issue Information	10
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Commercial funding and estimated intervention effects in randomized clinical trials: Systematic review of meta‐epidemiological studies	10
Appropriateness of conducting and reporting random‐effects meta‐analysis in oncology	10
A re‐analysis of about 60,000 sparse data meta‐analyses suggests that using an adequate method for pooling matters	10
Crowdsourcing the identification of studies for COVID‐19‐related Cochrane Rapid Reviews	10
Accuracy and precision of fixed and random effects in meta‐analyses of randomized control trials for continuous outcomes	9
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Rare events meta‐analysis using the Bayesian beta‐binomial model	9
An evaluation of the performance of stopping rules in AI‐aided screening for psychological meta‐analytical research	9
Combining meta‐analysis with multiple imputation for one‐step, privacy‐protecting estimation of causal treatment effects in multi‐site studies	9
Issue Information	9

Using systems perspectives in evidence synthesis: A methodological mapping review	9
Development of a search filter to retrieve reports of interrupted time series studies from MEDLINE and PubMed	9
Network meta‐analysis: Looping back	9
A novel robust meta-analysis model using the t distribution for outlier accommodation and detection	8
How should we handle predatory journals in evidence synthesis? A descriptive survey‐based cross‐sectional study of evidence synthesis experts	8
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Adjusting for misclassification of an exposure in an individual participant data meta‐analysis	8
Methodological considerations for novel approaches to covariate‐adjusted indirect treatment comparisons	8
Meta‐analyses of phase I dose‐finding studies: Application for the development of protein kinase inhibitors in oncology	8
Exploring methodological approaches used in network meta‐analysis of psychological interventions: A scoping review	7
Exact inference for fixed‐effects meta‐analysis of proportions	7
Estimating interactions and subgroup‐specific treatment effects in meta‐analysis without aggregation bias: A within‐trial framework	7
Methods for using Bing's AI‐powered search engine for data extraction for a systematic review	7
Graphical Representation of Overlap for OVErviews: GROOVE tool	7
Reverse‐Bayes methods for evidence assessment and research synthesis	7
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Rapid evidence synthesis approach for limits on the search date: How rapid could it be?	7
Searchsmart.org: Guiding researchers to the best databases and search systems for systematic reviews and beyond	7