OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Research Synthesis Methods is 6. 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 2021-01-01 to 2025-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Language inclusion in ecological systematic reviews and maps: Barriers and perspectives	198
Comment on a review of methods to assess publication and other reporting biases in meta‐analysis	166
Impact of searching clinical trials registers in systematic reviews of pharmaceutical and non‐pharmaceutical interventions: Reanalysis of meta‐analyses	109
Adherence to conflicts of interest policy in Cochrane reviews where authors are also editorial board members: A cross‐sectional analysis	73
Evaluation of the interim Cochrane rapid review methods guidance—A mixed‐methods study on the understanding of and adherence to the guidance	71
Automated data analysis of unstructured grey literature in health research: A mapping review	68
Issue Information	58
A framework to characterise the reproducibility of meta‐analysis results with its application to direct oral anticoagulants in the acute treatment of venous thromboembolism	57
Accuracy and precision of fixed and random effects in meta‐analyses of randomized control trials for continuous outcomes	51
Issue Information	40
Combining meta‐analysis with multiple imputation for one‐step, privacy‐protecting estimation of causal treatment effects in multi‐site studies	39
Advice for improving the reproducibility of data extraction in meta‐analysis	33
Meta‐analyses of partial correlations are biased: Detection and solutions	30
A technical review of three clinical trials register resources indicates where improvements to the search interfaces are needed	26
Rare events meta‐analysis using the Bayesian beta‐binomial model	25
Facilitating open science practices for research syntheses: PreregRS guides preregistration	25
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Estimating the reference interval from a fixed effects meta‐analysis	23
What are the best methods for rapid reviews of the research evidence? A systematic review of reviews and primary studies	22
A framework for synthesizing intervention evidence from multiple sources into a single certainty of evidence rating: Methodological developments from a US National Academies of S	22
A mapping exercise using automated techniques to develop a search strategy to identify systematic review tools	18
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Response to Kim et al. “When conducting a systematic review, can one trade search efficiency for potential publication bias?”	17
Additional considerations and response to ‘graphical representation of overlap for OVErviews (GROOVE tool)’	17
Kenward‐Roger–type corrections for inference methods of network meta‐analysis and meta‐regression	17

Meta‐analyzing partial correlation coefficients using Fisher's z transformation	17
Combining estimators in interlaboratory studies and meta‐analyses	17
A search of only four key databases would identify most randomized controlled trials of acupuncture: A meta‐epidemiological study	17
Assessment of key characteristics, methodology, and effect size measures used in meta‐analysis of human‐health‐related animal studies	17
Towards the automatic risk of bias assessment on randomized controlled trials: A comparison of RobotReviewer and humans	16
Zero‐ and few‐shot prompting of generative large language models provides weak assessment of risk of bias in clinical trials	16
Case study meta‐analysis in the social sciences. Insights on data quality and reliability from a large‐N case survey	16
How trace plots help interpret meta‐analysis results	15
Development of the individual participant data integrity tool for assessing the integrity of randomised trials using individual participant data	15
Accuracy of conversion formula for effect sizes: A Monte Carlo simulation	14
‘Twenty years of network meta‐analysis: Continuing controversies and recent developments’: A health technology assessment perspective	13
Risk of bias assessment in preclinical literature using natural language processing	13
Broad versus narrow research questions in evidence synthesis: A parallel to (and plea for) estimands	12
Comparing methods for handling missing covariates in meta‐regression	12
MA‐cont:pre/post effect size: An interactive tool for the meta‐analysis of continuous outcomes using R Shiny	11
Two‐stage or not two‐stage? That is the question for IPD meta‐analysis projects	11
Using clinical trial registries to inform Copas selection model for publication bias in meta‐analysis	11
Including non‐English language articles in systematic reviews: A reflection on processes for identifying low‐cost sources of translation support	11
The age of abundant scholarly information and its synthesis– A time when ‘just google it’ is no longer enough	11
Correct standard errors can bias meta‐analysis	10
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On the double‐robustness and semiparametric efficiency of matching‐adjusted indirect comparisons	10
Issue Information	10
Meta‐analysis and partial correlation coefficients: A matter of weights	10
Graphical evaluation of evidence structure within a component network meta‐analysis	10
A rule‐based approach for automatically extracting data from systematic reviews and their updates to model the risk of conclusion change	10
Reporting of Cochrane systematic review protocols with network meta‐analyses—A scoping review	10
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Rapid evidence synthesis approach for limits on the search date: How rapid could it be?	10
Adjusting for misclassification of an exposure in an individual participant data meta‐analysis	9
Developing prediction models when there are systematically missing predictors in individual patient data meta‐analysis	9
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Searchsmart.org: Guiding researchers to the best databases and search systems for systematic reviews and beyond	9
Network meta analysis to predict the efficacy of an approved treatment in a new indication	9
Beyond Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science: An evaluation of the backward and forward citation coverage of 59 databases' citation indices	9
Response to Hemilä and Chalker's “Pitfalls in choosing data examples for methodological work: Bayesian approaches to a fixed effects meta‐analysis of zinc lozenges for the common cold”	8
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Bayesian sparse modeling to identify high‐risk subgroups in meta‐analysis of safety data	8
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A REML method for the evidence‐splitting model in network meta‐analysis	8
Reverse‐Bayes methods for evidence assessment and research synthesis	7
Sensitivity analysis for the interactive effects of internal bias and publication bias in meta‐analyses	7
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Methods for using Bing's AI‐powered search engine for data extraction for a systematic review	7
PsychOpen CAMA: Publication of community‐augmented meta‐analyses in psychology	7
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A comprehensive review and shiny application on the matching‐adjusted indirect comparison	7
Methodological considerations for novel approaches to covariate‐adjusted indirect treatment comparisons	7

Meta‐analysis of prevalence: I² statistic and how to deal with heterogeneity	7
Using artificial intelligence methods for systematic review in health sciences: A systematic review	7
Bayesian meta‐analysis for evaluating treatment effectiveness in biomarker subgroups using trials of mixed patient populations	7
Exploring the relevance of the effect of geographical location when searching for studies using Google Search	7
The impact of continuity correction methods in Cochrane reviews with single‐zero trials with rare events: A meta‐epidemiological study	6
Estimating interactions and subgroup‐specific treatment effects in meta‐analysis without aggregation bias: A within‐trial framework	6
Data extraction for evidence synthesis using a large language model: A proof‐of‐concept study	6
Combining endpoint and change data did not affect the summary standardised mean difference in pairwise and network meta‐analyses: An empirical study in depression	6
Bayesian meta‐analysis usingSAS PROC BGLIMM	6
Bias propagation in network meta‐analysis models	6
Graphical Representation of Overlap for OVErviews: GROOVE tool	6
Reevaluation of statistically significant meta‐analyses in advanced cancer patients using the Hartung–Knapp method and prediction intervals—A methodological study	6
Synthesizing cross‐design evidence and cross‐format data using network meta‐regression	6