Research Synthesis Methods

Papers
(The TQCC of Research Synthesis Methods is 10. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
An investigation of the impact of using contrast- and arm-synthesis models for network meta-analysis235
A mapping exercise using automated techniques to develop a search strategy to identify systematic review tools181
Towards the automatic risk of bias assessment on randomized controlled trials: A comparison of RobotReviewer and humans158
Advice for improving the reproducibility of data extraction in meta‐analysis152
Reported methodological quality of medical systematic reviews: Development of an assessment tool (ReMarQ) and meta-research study121
What are the best methods for rapid reviews of the research evidence? A systematic review of reviews and primary studies105
Meta‐analyses of partial correlations are biased: Detection and solutions89
Bayesian workflow for bias-adjustment model in meta-analysis88
Meta-analytic-predictive priors based on a single study85
How to conduct an individual participant data meta-analysis in response to an emerging pathogen: Lessons learned from Zika and COVID-1977
Lord’s Paradox and two network meta-analysis models70
Transforming evidence synthesis: A systematic review of the evolution of automated meta-analysis in the age of AI62
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Synthesis of depression outcomes reported on different scales: A comparison of methods for modelling mean differences58
Network meta analysis to predict the efficacy of an approved treatment in a new indication50
Exploring graphical approaches to assess the impact of an additional trial on a decision model via updated meta-analysis48
CausalMetaR: An R package for performing causally interpretable meta-analyses46
Capturing causal claims: A fine-tuned text mining model for extracting causal sentences from social science papers43
A comprehensive systematic review dataset is a rich resource for training and evaluation of AI systems for title and abstract screening40
Fast‐and‐frugal decision tree for the rapid critical appraisal of systematic reviews37
Data extraction for evidence synthesis using a large language model: A proof‐of‐concept study36
Bias propagation in network meta‐analysis models35
Authors’ reply: Continuity corrections with Mantel–Haenszel estimators in Cochrane reviews34
Correct standard errors can bias meta‐analysis32
Evaluation of the replicability of systematic reviews with meta-analyses of the effects of health interventions31
Exploring the methodological quality and risk of bias in 200 systematic reviews: A comparative study of ROBIS and AMSTAR-2 tools30
Evaluation of semi-automated record screening methods for systematic reviews of prognosis studies and intervention studies29
A meta-research review of the use of flexible meta-regression in biomedical systematic reviews published between 2011 and 202129
Incorporating the possibility of cure into network meta-analyses: A case study from resected Stage III/IV melanoma29
Estimands and their implications for evidence synthesis for oncology: A simulation study of treatment switching in meta-analysis27
Graphical tools for visualizing the results of network meta‐analysis of multicomponent interventions26
Bayesian Federated Inference for regression models based on non-shared medical center data25
Sensitivity analysis for reporting bias on the time-dependent summary receiver operating characteristics curve in meta-analysis of prognosis studies with time-to-event outcomes23
Calculating the power of a planned individual participant data meta‐analysis to examine prognostic factor effects for a binary outcome22
How to plan and manage an individual participant data meta‐analysis. An illustrative toolkit21
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Selecting a specialized education database for literature reviews and evidence synthesis projects20
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Missingness mechanism messiness in meta‐analysis: A response to “The importance of plausible data‐generating mechanisms in simulation studies”19
Inclusive critical appraisal of qualitative and quantitative findings in evidence synthesis19
Impact of trial attrition rates on treatment effect estimates in chronic inflammatory diseases: A meta‐epidemiological study19
Critical appraisal tools used in systematic reviews of in vitro cell culture studies: A methodological study19
Six ways to handle dependent effect sizes in meta-analytic structural equation modeling: Is there a gold standard?18
Evaluation of statistical methods used to meta‐analyse results from interrupted time series studies: A simulation study18
Using qualitative comparative analysis as a mixed methods synthesis in systematic mixed studies reviews: Guidance and a worked example18
Population adjusted‐indirect comparisons in health technology assessment: A methodological systematic review17
Combining search filters for randomized controlled trials with the Cochrane RCT Classifier in Covidence: a methodological validation study16
Twenty years of network meta‐analysis: Continuing controversies and recent developments16
RIMeta: An R shiny tool for estimating the reference interval from a meta‐analysis16
Validation of large language models (Llama 3 and ChatGPT-4o mini) for title and abstract screening in biomedical systematic reviews16
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A causal meta-analysis framework for clinical trials with unequal randomization ratios15
Causally interpretable meta‐analysis: Clearly defined causal effects and two case studies15
A practical guide to evaluating sensitivity of literature search strings for systematic reviews using relative recall15
Mixed-effects two-stage residual inclusion methods for individual patient data meta-analysis: A methodological framework for causal inference in survival analysis15
Reduce, reuse, recycle: Introducing MetaPipeX, a framework for analyses of multi‐lab data14
Pitfalls in choosing data examples for methodological work: Bayesian approaches to a fixed effects meta‐analysis of zinc lozenges for the common cold14
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Appropriateness of conducting and reporting random‐effects meta‐analysis in oncology13
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Tipping point analysis in network meta-analysis12
An evaluation of the performance of stopping rules in AI‐aided screening for psychological meta‐analytical research12
A re‐analysis of about 60,000 sparse data meta‐analyses suggests that using an adequate method for pooling matters12
Development of a search filter to retrieve reports of interrupted time series studies from MEDLINE and PubMed11
Combining meta‐analysis with multiple imputation for one‐step, privacy‐protecting estimation of causal treatment effects in multi‐site studies11
Assessing risk of bias of cohort studies with large language models11
Using systems perspectives in evidence synthesis: A methodological mapping review11
Continuity corrections with Mantel–Haenszel estimators in Cochrane reviews11
Accuracy and precision of fixed and random effects in meta‐analyses of randomized control trials for continuous outcomes11
Using Elicit AI research assistant for data extraction in systematic reviews: A feasibility study across environmental and life sciences11
Commercial funding and estimated intervention effects in randomized clinical trials: Systematic review of meta‐epidemiological studies11
Rare events meta‐analysis using the Bayesian beta‐binomial model11
Meta‐analyses of phase I dose‐finding studies: Application for the development of protein kinase inhibitors in oncology10
Methodological considerations for novel approaches to covariate‐adjusted indirect treatment comparisons10
How should we handle predatory journals in evidence synthesis? A descriptive survey‐based cross‐sectional study of evidence synthesis experts10
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Exploring methodological approaches used in network meta‐analysis of psychological interventions: A scoping review10
Network meta‐analysis: Looping back10
Adjusting for misclassification of an exposure in an individual participant data meta‐analysis10
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Methods for using Bing's AI‐powered search engine for data extraction for a systematic review10
A novel robust meta-analysis model using the t distribution for outlier accommodation and detection10
Evaluating the accuracy and speed of eight deduplication tools: A comparative study10
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