BMC Medical Research Methodology

Papers
(The H4-Index of BMC Medical Research Methodology is 41. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Interrupted time series analysis using autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) models: a guide for evaluating large-scale health interventions255
Conducting proportional meta-analysis in different types of systematic reviews: a guide for synthesisers of evidence219
IPDfromKM: reconstruct individual patient data from published Kaplan-Meier survival curves201
COSMIN Risk of Bias tool to assess the quality of studies on reliability or measurement error of outcome measurement instruments: a Delphi study197
Social media as a recruitment platform for a nationwide online survey of COVID-19 knowledge, beliefs, and practices in the United States: methodology and feasibility analysis142
Generation and evaluation of synthetic patient data140
Major adverse cardiovascular event definitions used in observational analysis of administrative databases: a systematic review127
Open science saves lives: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic118
Semantic and cognitive tools to aid statistical science: replace confidence and significance by compatibility and surprise114
COVID-19-related medical research: a meta-research and critical appraisal97
Real-world data: a brief review of the methods, applications, challenges and opportunities92
Accuracy of random-forest-based imputation of missing data in the presence of non-normality, non-linearity, and interaction91
Mediation analysis methods used in observational research: a scoping review and recommendations90
Joint analysis of duration of ventilation, length of intensive care, and mortality of COVID-19 patients: a multistate approach81
Bayesian alternatives to null hypothesis significance testing in biomedical research: a non-technical introduction to Bayesian inference with JASP81
Managing overlap of primary study results across systematic reviews: practical considerations for authors of overviews of reviews75
A conceptual framework for prognostic research74
Improving design choices in Delphi studies in medicine: the case of an exemplary physician multi-round panel study with 100% response66
Protocol registration issues of systematic review and meta-analysis studies: a survey of global researchers66
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): an evidence map of medical literature63
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on publication dynamics and non-COVID-19 research production62
Conceptualising natural and quasi experiments in public health62
Sample size calculation for prevalence studies using Scalex and ScalaR calculators60
Most published meta-regression analyses based on aggregate data suffer from methodological pitfalls: a meta-epidemiological study57
A tutorial on methodological studies: the what, when, how and why55
Machine learning in medicine: a practical introduction to natural language processing52
Going web or staying paper? The use of web-surveys among older people51
Completeness of reporting of clinical prediction models developed using supervised machine learning: a systematic review50
Application of machine learning in predicting hospital readmissions: a scoping review of the literature50
A narrative review on the validity of electronic health record-based research in epidemiology49
A scoping review of Q-methodology in healthcare research49
An evaluation of DistillerSR’s machine learning-based prioritization tool for title/abstract screening – impact on reviewer-relevant outcomes48
Ensuring protocol compliance and data transparency in clinical trials using Blockchain smart contracts48
Facilitating harmonized data quality assessments. A data quality framework for observational health research data collections with software implementations in R48
Using a distribution-based approach and systematic review methods to derive minimum clinically important differences44
Comparison of six statistical methods for interrupted time series studies: empirical evaluation of 190 published series43
Directed acyclic graphs and causal thinking in clinical risk prediction modeling43
Quality assessment tools used in systematic reviews of in vitro studies: A systematic review43
An R package for an integrated evaluation of statistical approaches to cancer incidence projection42
Research methodology and characteristics of journal articles with original data, preprint articles and registered clinical trial protocols about COVID-1941
Epistemonikos: a comprehensive database of systematic reviews for health decision-making41
Methodological conduct of prognostic prediction models developed using machine learning in oncology: a systematic review41
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