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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Optimally estimating the sample standard deviation from the five‐number summary	257
Meta‐analysis of prevalence: I² statistic and how to deal with heterogeneity	146
Investigating and dealing with publication bias and other reporting biases in meta‐analyses of health research: A review	124
Citationchaser: A tool for transparent and efficient forward and backward citation chasing in systematic searching	118
Introduction to PRISMA 2020 and implications for research synthesis methodologists	89
The effect direction plot revisited: Application of the 2019 Cochrane Handbook guidance on alternative synthesis methods	86
Graphical enhancements to summary receiver operating characteristic plots to facilitate the analysis and reporting of meta‐analysis of diagnostic test accuracy data	82
A historical review of publication bias	73
Graphical Representation of Overlap for OVErviews: GROOVE tool	60
Zero‐cell corrections in random‐effects meta‐analyses	59
On weakly informative prior distributions for the heterogeneity parameter in Bayesian random‐effects meta‐analysis	57
Using artificial intelligence methods for systematic review in health sciences: A systematic review	51
Improving the reporting quality of reliability generalization meta‐analyses: The REGEMA checklist	46
Meta‐analytic structural equation modeling made easy: A tutorial and web application for one‐stage MASEM	40
Estimating publication bias in meta‐analyses of peer‐reviewed studies: A meta‐meta‐analysis across disciplines and journal tiers	35
Detecting publication selection bias through excess statistical significance	34
Applying and reporting relevance, richness and rigour in realist evidence appraisals: Advancing key concepts in realist reviews	33
Estimating the prevalence of missing experiments in a neuroimaging meta‐analysis	30
Identifying and managing problematic trials: A research integrity assessment tool for randomized controlled trials in evidence synthesis	29
Robust Bayesian meta‐analysis: Model‐averaging across complementary publication bias adjustment methods	28
Methods for population adjustment with limited access to individual patient data: A review and simulation study	26
Creating effective interrupted time series graphs: Review and recommendations	26
What every researcher should know about searching – clarified concepts, search advice, and an agenda to improve finding in academia	24
The application of AMSTAR2 in 32 overviews of systematic reviews of interventions for mental and behavioural disorders: A cross‐sectional study	23
Barriers and facilitators systematic reviews in health: A methodological review and recommendations for reviewers	22

The Kilim plot: A tool for visualizing network meta‐analysis results for multiple outcomes	22
Using information‐theoretic approaches for model selection in meta‐analysis	22
Variations of mixed methods reviews approaches: A case study	21
ccaR: A package for assessing primary study overlap across systematic reviews in overviews	20
Lost in reviews: Looking for the involvement of stakeholders, patients, public and other non‐researcher contributors in realist reviews	20
Data sharing—trialists' plans at registration, attitudes, barriers and facilitators: A cohort study and cross‐sectional survey	18
Outlier detection and influence diagnostics in network meta‐analysis	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
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	16
A generalized‐weights solution to sample overlap in meta‐analysis	16
Parametric G‐computation for compatible indirect treatment comparisons with limited individual patient data	16
Meta‐analysis of continuous outcomes: Using pseudo IPD created from aggregate data to adjust for baseline imbalance and assess treatment‐by‐baseline modification	16
Evaluation of the comprehensiveness, accuracy and currency of the Cochrane COVID‐19 Study Register for supporting rapid evidence synthesis production	15
Alternative weighting schemes when performing matching‐adjusted indirect comparisons	15
Applying machine classifiers to update searches: Analysis from two case studies	15
Assessing context suitability (generalizability, external validity, applicability or transferability) of findings in evidence syntheses in healthcare—An integrative review of methodological guidance	15
Using collaboration networks to identify authorship dependence in meta‐analysis results	15
Extracting data from graphs: A case‐study on animal research with implications for meta‐analyses	14
On the moments of Cochran's Q statistic under the null hypothesis, with application to the meta‐analysis of risk difference	14
Citation tracking for systematic literature searching: A scoping review	14
Synthesis of evidence from zero‐events studies: A comparison of one‐stage framework methods	14
Estimating the reference range from a meta‐analysis	14
A critical reflection on computing the sampling variance of the partial correlation coefficient	14
Using Monte Carlo experiments to select meta‐analytic estimators	13
How to decide whether a systematic review is stable and not in need of updating: Analysis of Cochrane reviews	13
The age of abundant scholarly information and its synthesis– A time when ‘just google it’ is no longer enough	12
Bibliometric study of ‘overviews of systematic reviews’ of health interventions: Evaluation of prevalence, citation and journal impact factor	12
A new taxonomy was developed for overlap across 'overviews of systematic reviews': A meta‐research study of research waste	11
Including non‐English language articles in systematic reviews: A reflection on processes for identifying low‐cost sources of translation support	11
Retrospective median power, false positive meta‐analysis and large‐scale replication	11
Assessing the risk of bias in choice of search sources for environmental meta‐analyses	11
Cumulative meta‐analysis: What works	11
Double arcsine transform not appropriate for meta‐analysis	10
Reverse‐Bayes methods for evidence assessment and research synthesis	10
Cluster wild bootstrapping to handle dependent effect sizes in meta‐analysis with a small number of studies	10
Rapid evidence synthesis approach for limits on the search date: How rapid could it be?	10
Degree irregularity and rank probability bias in network meta‐analysis	10
Interval estimation of the overall treatment effect in random‐effects meta‐analyses: Recommendations from a simulation study comparing frequentist, Bayesian, and bootstrap methods	10
In‐depth evaluation of machine learning methods for semi‐automating article screening in a systematic review of mechanistic literature	9
An evidence‐splitting approach to evaluation of direct‐indirect evidence inconsistency in network meta‐analysis	9
Study specific prediction intervals for random‐effects meta‐analysis: A tutorial	9
Reevaluation of statistically significant meta‐analyses in advanced cancer patients using the Hartung–Knapp method and prediction intervals—A methodological study	9
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	9
Location‐scale models for meta‐analysis	9
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 in	9
IPDmada: An R Shiny tool for analyzing and visualizing individual patient data meta‐analyses of diagnostic test accuracy	9
Machine learning in systematic reviews: Comparing automated text clustering with Lingo3G and human researcher categorization in a rapid review	9
Interactive Web‐based Data Visualization and Analysis Tool for Synthetizing on‐farm Research Networks Data	8
Enhanced access to recommendations from the Cochrane Handbook for improving authors' judgments about risk of bias: A randomized controlled trial	8

Risk of bias assessment in preclinical literature using natural language processing	8
Systematic review of the methodological literature for integrating qualitative evidence syntheses into health guideline development	8
Paperfetcher: A tool to automate handsearching and citation searching for systematic reviews	8
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Efficient searching for NICE public health guidelines: Would using fewer sources still find the evidence?	8
Examining how meta‐analytic methods perform in the presence of bias: A simulation study	8
Graphical tools for visualizing the results of network meta‐analysis of multicomponent interventions	7
How should we handle predatory journals in evidence synthesis? A descriptive survey‐based cross‐sectional study of evidence synthesis experts	7
Comparison and validation of metadta for meta‐analysis of diagnostic test accuracy studies	7
Quantifying the robustness of primary analysis results: A case study on missing outcome data in pairwise and network meta‐analysis	7
Machine learning for identifying relevant publications in updates of systematic reviews of diagnostic test studies	7
Comparing methods for handling missing covariates in meta‐regression	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
The confounder matrix: A tool to assess confounding bias in systematic reviews of observational studies of etiology	7
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	7
A search of only four key databases would identify most randomized controlled trials of acupuncture: A meta‐epidemiological study	7
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	7