Research Synthesis Methods

Papers
(The H4-Index of Research Synthesis Methods is 22. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Language inclusion in ecological systematic reviews and maps: Barriers and perspectives246
Effect modification and non-collapsibility together may lead to conflicting treatment decisions: A review of marginal and conditional estimands and recommendations for decision-making215
Comment on a review of methods to assess publication and other reporting biases in meta‐analysis138
Impact of searching clinical trials registers in systematic reviews of pharmaceutical and non‐pharmaceutical interventions: Reanalysis of meta‐analyses106
Adherence to conflicts of interest policy in Cochrane reviews where authors are also editorial board members: A cross‐sectional analysis102
Evaluation of the interim Cochrane rapid review methods guidance—A mixed‐methods study on the understanding of and adherence to the guidance75
Automated data analysis of unstructured grey literature in health research: A mapping review58
Estimating the reference interval from a fixed effects meta‐analysis53
Issue Information50
A framework to characterise the reproducibility of meta‐analysis results with its application to direct oral anticoagulants in the acute treatment of venous thromboembolism49
Accuracy and precision of fixed and random effects in meta‐analyses of randomized control trials for continuous outcomes47
Issue Information37
Combining meta‐analysis with multiple imputation for one‐step, privacy‐protecting estimation of causal treatment effects in multi‐site studies34
Advice for improving the reproducibility of data extraction in meta‐analysis31
Meta‐analyses of partial correlations are biased: Detection and solutions30
What are the best methods for rapid reviews of the research evidence? A systematic review of reviews and primary studies30
Rare events meta‐analysis using the Bayesian beta‐binomial model30
‘Twenty years of network meta‐analysis: Continuing controversies and recent developments’: A health technology assessment perspective27
Facilitating open science practices for research syntheses: PreregRS guides preregistration27
The age of abundant scholarly information and its synthesis– A time when ‘just google it’ is no longer enough26
A mapping exercise using automated techniques to develop a search strategy to identify systematic review tools25
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