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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Meta‐analysis of prevalence: I² statistic and how to deal with heterogeneity	198
Citationchaser: A tool for transparent and efficient forward and backward citation chasing in systematic searching	151
Investigating and dealing with publication bias and other reporting biases in meta‐analyses of health research: A review	132
Introduction to PRISMA 2020 and implications for research synthesis methodologists	109
Using artificial intelligence methods for systematic review in health sciences: A systematic review	73
Graphical Representation of Overlap for OVErviews: GROOVE tool	71
On weakly informative prior distributions for the heterogeneity parameter in Bayesian random‐effects meta‐analysis	68
Improving the reporting quality of reliability generalization meta‐analyses: The REGEMA checklist	58
Applying and reporting relevance, richness and rigour in realist evidence appraisals: Advancing key concepts in realist reviews	57
Meta‐analytic structural equation modeling made easy: A tutorial and web application for one‐stageMASEM	44
Detecting publication selection bias through excess statistical significance	40
Identifying and managing problematic trials: A research integrity assessment tool for randomized controlled trials in evidence synthesis	39
Estimating publication bias in meta‐analyses of peer‐reviewed studies: A meta‐meta‐analysis across disciplines and journal tiers	38
Robust Bayesian meta‐analysis: Model‐averaging across complementary publication bias adjustment methods	33
Methods for population adjustment with limited access to individual patient data: A review and simulation study	30
The application of AMSTAR2 in 32 overviews of systematic reviews of interventions for mental and behavioural disorders: A cross‐sectional study	25
Citation tracking for systematic literature searching: A scoping review	25
Can large language models replace humans in systematic reviews? Evaluating GPT‐4's efficacy in screening and extracting data from peer‐reviewed and grey literature in multiple languages	25
Using information‐theoretic approaches for model selection in meta‐analysis	23
Data sharing—trialists' plans at registration, attitudes, barriers and facilitators: A cohort study and cross‐sectional survey	22
ccaR: A package for assessing primary study overlap across systematic reviews in overviews	22
Parametric G‐computation for compatible indirect treatment comparisons with limited individual patient data	18
Including non‐English language articles in systematic reviews: A reflection on processes for identifying low‐cost sources of translation support	18
Evaluation of the comprehensiveness, accuracy and currency of the Cochrane COVID‐19 Study Register for supporting rapid evidence synthesis production	17
Methodological guidance for rapid reviews in healthcare: A scoping review	17

What you see depends on where you sit: The effect of geographical location on web‐searching for systematic reviews: A case study	17
The ScHARR LMIC filter: Adapting a low‐ and middle‐income countries geographic search filter to identify studies on preterm birth prevention and management	17
Synthesis of evidence from zero‐events studies: A comparison of one‐stage framework methods	17
Twenty years of network meta‐analysis: Continuing controversies and recent developments	17
In‐depth evaluation of machine learning methods for semi‐automating article screening in a systematic review of mechanistic literature	17
Extracting data from graphs: A case‐study on animal research with implications for meta‐analyses	16
Applying machine classifiers to update searches: Analysis from two case studies	16
Bibliometric study of ‘overviews of systematic reviews’ of health interventions: Evaluation of prevalence, citation and journal impact factor	15
The age of abundant scholarly information and its synthesis– A time when ‘just google it’ is no longer enough	15
A critical reflection on computing the sampling variance of the partial correlation coefficient	15
Avoiding common mistakes in meta‐analysis: Understanding the distinct roles of Q, I‐squared, tau‐squared, and the prediction interval in reporting heterogeneity	15
Alternative weighting schemes when performing matching‐adjusted indirect comparisons	15
Using Monte Carlo experiments to select meta‐analytic estimators	14
Cluster wild bootstrapping to handle dependent effect sizes in meta‐analysis with a small number of studies	14
Machine learning in systematic reviews: Comparing automated text clustering with Lingo3G and human researcher categorization in a rapid review	13
Rapid evidence synthesis approach for limits on the search date: How rapid could it be?	13
Retrospective median power, false positive meta‐analysis and large‐scale replication	12
A new taxonomy was developed for overlap across 'overviews of systematic reviews': A meta‐research study of research waste	12
Two‐stage or not two‐stage? That is the question for IPD meta‐analysis projects	11
Paperfetcher: A tool to automate handsearching and citation searching for systematic reviews	11
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Cumulative meta‐analysis: What works	11
An evidence‐splitting approach to evaluation of direct‐indirect evidence inconsistency in network meta‐analysis	11
Study specific prediction intervals for random‐effects meta‐analysis: A tutorial	10
CLUSTER searching approach to inform evidence syntheses: A methodological review	10
Synthesizing cross‐design evidence and cross‐format data using network meta‐regression	10
Footprint of publication selection bias on meta‐analyses in medicine, environmental sciences, psychology, and economics	10
Double arcsine transform not appropriate for meta‐analysis	10
How should we handle predatory journals in evidence synthesis? A descriptive survey‐based cross‐sectional study of evidence synthesis experts	10
Reverse‐Bayes methods for evidence assessment and research synthesis	10
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 a	10
Location‐scale models for meta‐analysis	10
Reevaluation of statistically significant meta‐analyses in advanced cancer patients using the Hartung–Knapp method and prediction intervals—A methodological study	10
Systematic review of the methodological literature for integrating qualitative evidence syntheses into health guideline development	9
Data extraction for evidence synthesis using a large language model: A proof‐of‐concept study	9
Comparing methods for handling missing covariates in meta‐regression	9
Enhanced access to recommendations from the Cochrane Handbook for improving authors' judgments about risk of bias: A randomized controlled trial	9
Interval estimation of the overall treatment effect in random‐effects meta‐analyses: Recommendations from a simulation study comparing frequentist, Bayesian, and bootstrap methods	9
Comparison and validation of metadta for meta‐analysis of diagnostic test accuracy studies	9
Examining how meta‐analytic methods perform in the presence of bias: A simulation study	9
Risk of bias assessment in preclinical literature using natural language processing	9
Efficient searching for NICE public health guidelines: Would using fewer sources still find the evidence?	8
Bayesian meta‐analysis usingSAS PROC BGLIMM	8
Machine learning for identifying relevant publications in updates of systematic reviews of diagnostic test studies	8
A search of only four key databases would identify most randomized controlled trials of acupuncture: A meta‐epidemiological study	8
Identifying evidence for five realist reviews in primary health care: A comparison of search methods	8
The confounder matrix: A tool to assess confounding bias in systematic reviews of observational studies of etiology	8
Graphical tools for visualizing the results of network meta‐analysis of multicomponent interventions	7
Correct standard errors can bias meta‐analysis	7
Making the case for librarian expertise to support evidence synthesis for the sustainable development goals	7

Quantifying the robustness of primary analysis results: A case study on missing outcome data in pairwise and network meta‐analysis	7
Estimating interactions and subgroup‐specific treatment effects in meta‐analysis without aggregation bias: A within‐trial framework	7
Meta‐analyzing partial correlation coefficients using Fisher's z transformation	7
When is the evidence conclusive? Analysis of systematic reviews for which Cochrane declared that conclusions will not change with further studies	7
A Q statistic with constant weights for assessing heterogeneity in meta‐analysis	7
Methods for using Bing's AI‐powered search engine for data extraction for a systematic review	7
metamedian: An R package for meta‐analyzing studies reporting medians	7