Research Synthesis Methods

Papers
(The TQCC of Research Synthesis Methods is 8. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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What are the best methods for rapid reviews of the research evidence? A systematic review of reviews and primary studies360
Lord’s Paradox and two network meta-analysis models316
Reported methodological quality of medical systematic reviews: Development of an assessment tool (ReMarQ) and meta-research study170
Facilitating open science practices for research syntheses: PreregRS guides preregistration143
Towards the automatic risk of bias assessment on randomized controlled trials: A comparison of RobotReviewer and humans140
An investigation of the impact of using contrast- and arm-synthesis models for network meta-analysis123
Accuracy of conversion formula for effect sizes: A Monte Carlo simulation116
Meta‐analyses of partial correlations are biased: Detection and solutions92
Advice for improving the reproducibility of data extraction in meta‐analysis78
Assessment of key characteristics, methodology, and effect size measures used in meta‐analysis of human‐health‐related animal studies74
A mapping exercise using automated techniques to develop a search strategy to identify systematic review tools69
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Synthesis of depression outcomes reported on different scales: A comparison of methods for modelling mean differences48
Authors’ reply: Continuity corrections with Mantel–Haenszel estimators in Cochrane reviews36
Network meta analysis to predict the efficacy of an approved treatment in a new indication35
Fast‐and‐frugal decision tree for the rapid critical appraisal of systematic reviews34
Exploring graphical approaches to assess the impact of an additional trial on a decision model via updated meta-analysis33
Evaluation of semi-automated record screening methods for systematic reviews of prognosis studies and intervention studies32
Correct standard errors can bias meta‐analysis31
CausalMetaR: An R package for performing causally interpretable meta-analyses30
Capturing causal claims: A fine-tuned text mining model for extracting causal sentences from social science papers27
Incorporating the possibility of cure into network meta-analyses: A case study from resected Stage III/IV melanoma26
Estimands and their implications for evidence synthesis for oncology: A simulation study of treatment switching in meta-analysis26
Retrieving Cochrane reviews is sometimes challenging and their reporting is not always optimal24
Exploring the methodological quality and risk of bias in 200 systematic reviews: A comparative study of ROBIS and AMSTAR-2 tools24
A comprehensive systematic review dataset is a rich resource for training and evaluation of AI systems for title and abstract screening24
Bias propagation in network meta‐analysis models23
Reporting of Cochrane systematic review protocols with network meta‐analyses—A scoping review23
Calculating the power of a planned individual participant data meta‐analysis to examine prognostic factor effects for a binary outcome22
Data extraction for evidence synthesis using a large language model: A proof‐of‐concept study22
Regarding approaches to simulating random‐effects22
Selecting a specialized education database for literature reviews and evidence synthesis projects21
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Sensitivity analysis for reporting bias on the time-dependent summary receiver operating characteristics curve in meta-analysis of prognosis studies with time-to-event outcomes20
Graphical tools for visualizing the results of network meta‐analysis of multicomponent interventions19
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Bayesian Federated Inference for regression models based on non-shared medical center data19
How to plan and manage an individual participant data meta‐analysis. An illustrative toolkit19
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Evaluation of statistical methods used to meta‐analyse results from interrupted time series studies: A simulation study18
Population adjusted‐indirect comparisons in health technology assessment: A methodological systematic review18
Validation of large language models (Llama 3 and ChatGPT-4o mini) for title and abstract screening in biomedical systematic reviews17
Missingness mechanism messiness in meta‐analysis: A response to “The importance of plausible data‐generating mechanisms in simulation studies”16
Double arcsine transform not appropriate for meta‐analysis16
Combining search filters for randomized controlled trials with the Cochrane RCT Classifier in Covidence: a methodological validation study16
Parametric G‐computation for compatible indirect treatment comparisons with limited individual patient data15
Six ways to handle dependent effect sizes in meta-analytic structural equation modeling: Is there a gold standard?15
Inclusive critical appraisal of qualitative and quantitative findings in evidence synthesis15
Using qualitative comparative analysis as a mixed methods synthesis in systematic mixed studies reviews: Guidance and a worked example15
Impact of trial attrition rates on treatment effect estimates in chronic inflammatory diseases: A meta‐epidemiological study15
Critical appraisal tools used in systematic reviews of in vitro cell culture studies: A methodological study15
Causally interpretable meta‐analysis: Clearly defined causal effects and two case studies14
Twenty years of network meta‐analysis: Continuing controversies and recent developments14
RIMeta: An R shiny tool for estimating the reference interval from a meta‐analysis13
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A semiparametric approach for meta‐analysis of diagnostic accuracy studies with multiple cut‐offs12
A practical guide to evaluating sensitivity of literature search strings for systematic reviews using relative recall12
Pitfalls in choosing data examples for methodological work: Bayesian approaches to a fixed effects meta‐analysis of zinc lozenges for the common cold11
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Crowdsourcing the identification of studies for COVID‐19‐related Cochrane Rapid Reviews11
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A re‐analysis of about 60,000 sparse data meta‐analyses suggests that using an adequate method for pooling matters10
Reduce, reuse, recycle: Introducing MetaPipeX, a framework for analyses of multi‐lab data10
Using systems perspectives in evidence synthesis: A methodological mapping review10
Appropriateness of conducting and reporting random‐effects meta‐analysis in oncology10
Commercial funding and estimated intervention effects in randomized clinical trials: Systematic review of meta‐epidemiological studies10
Accuracy and precision of fixed and random effects in meta‐analyses of randomized control trials for continuous outcomes9
An evaluation of the performance of stopping rules in AI‐aided screening for psychological meta‐analytical research9
Tipping point analysis in network meta-analysis9
Combining meta‐analysis with multiple imputation for one‐step, privacy‐protecting estimation of causal treatment effects in multi‐site studies9
Development of a search filter to retrieve reports of interrupted time series studies from MEDLINE and PubMed9
Assessing risk of bias of cohort studies with large language models9
Continuity corrections with Mantel–Haenszel estimators in Cochrane reviews9
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Meta‐analyses of phase I dose‐finding studies: Application for the development of protein kinase inhibitors in oncology8
Exploring methodological approaches used in network meta‐analysis of psychological interventions: A scoping review8
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StudyTypeTeller—Large language models to automatically classify research study types for systematic reviews8
Rare events meta‐analysis using the Bayesian beta‐binomial model8
Network meta‐analysis: Looping back8
A novel robust meta-analysis model using the t distribution for outlier accommodation and detection8
Adjusting for misclassification of an exposure in an individual participant data meta‐analysis8
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