Research Synthesis Methods

Article	Citations
Reported methodological quality of medical systematic reviews: Development of an assessment tool (ReMarQ) and meta-research study	418
Advice for improving the reproducibility of data extraction in meta‐analysis	185
Lord’s Paradox and two network meta-analysis models	152
How to conduct an individual participant data meta-analysis in response to an emerging pathogen: Lessons learned from Zika and COVID-19	138
Meta‐analyses of partial correlations are biased: Detection and solutions	121
Assessment of key characteristics, methodology, and effect size measures used in meta‐analysis of human‐health‐related animal studies	103
What are the best methods for rapid reviews of the research evidence? A systematic review of reviews and primary studies	93
Transforming evidence synthesis: A systematic review of the evolution of automated meta-analysis in the age of AI	81
An investigation of the impact of using contrast- and arm-synthesis models for network meta-analysis	72
A mapping exercise using automated techniques to develop a search strategy to identify systematic review tools	70
Bayesian workflow for bias-adjustment model in meta-analysis	58
Meta-analytic-predictive priors based on a single study	58
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Towards the automatic risk of bias assessment on randomized controlled trials: A comparison of RobotReviewer and humans	52
Synthesis of depression outcomes reported on different scales: A comparison of methods for modelling mean differences	44
Authors’ reply: Continuity corrections with Mantel–Haenszel estimators in Cochrane reviews	43
Network meta analysis to predict the efficacy of an approved treatment in a new indication	39
Exploring graphical approaches to assess the impact of an additional trial on a decision model via updated meta-analysis	38
Exploring the methodological quality and risk of bias in 200 systematic reviews: A comparative study of ROBIS and AMSTAR-2 tools	37
Capturing causal claims: A fine-tuned text mining model for extracting causal sentences from social science papers	34
Retrieving Cochrane reviews is sometimes challenging and their reporting is not always optimal	32
Fast‐and‐frugal decision tree for the rapid critical appraisal of systematic reviews	32
CausalMetaR: An R package for performing causally interpretable meta-analyses	32
A comprehensive systematic review dataset is a rich resource for training and evaluation of AI systems for title and abstract screening	31
Evaluation of semi-automated record screening methods for systematic reviews of prognosis studies and intervention studies	30

Evaluation of the replicability of systematic reviews with meta-analyses of the effects of health interventions	29
Incorporating the possibility of cure into network meta-analyses: A case study from resected Stage III/IV melanoma	28
Bias propagation in network meta‐analysis models	27
Estimands and their implications for evidence synthesis for oncology: A simulation study of treatment switching in meta-analysis	27
Correct standard errors can bias meta‐analysis	26
Sensitivity analysis for reporting bias on the time-dependent summary receiver operating characteristics curve in meta-analysis of prognosis studies with time-to-event outcomes	26
Data extraction for evidence synthesis using a large language model: A proof‐of‐concept study	26
Bayesian Federated Inference for regression models based on non-shared medical center data	25
Selecting a specialized education database for literature reviews and evidence synthesis projects	25
Calculating the power of a planned individual participant data meta‐analysis to examine prognostic factor effects for a binary outcome	23
How to plan and manage an individual participant data meta‐analysis. An illustrative toolkit	23
Graphical tools for visualizing the results of network meta‐analysis of multicomponent interventions	22
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Six ways to handle dependent effect sizes in meta-analytic structural equation modeling: Is there a gold standard?	18
Missingness mechanism messiness in meta‐analysis: A response to “The importance of plausible data‐generating mechanisms in simulation studies”	18
Inclusive critical appraisal of qualitative and quantitative findings in evidence synthesis	18
Impact of trial attrition rates on treatment effect estimates in chronic inflammatory diseases: A meta‐epidemiological study	17
Evaluation of statistical methods used to meta‐analyse results from interrupted time series studies: A simulation study	17
Population adjusted‐indirect comparisons in health technology assessment: A methodological systematic review	17
Double arcsine transform not appropriate for meta‐analysis	16
Parametric G‐computation for compatible indirect treatment comparisons with limited individual patient data	16
Using qualitative comparative analysis as a mixed methods synthesis in systematic mixed studies reviews: Guidance and a worked example	14
Validation of large language models (Llama 3 and ChatGPT-4o mini) for title and abstract screening in biomedical systematic reviews	14
Twenty years of network meta‐analysis: Continuing controversies and recent developments	14
Combining search filters for randomized controlled trials with the Cochrane RCT Classifier in Covidence: a methodological validation study	14
A semiparametric approach for meta‐analysis of diagnostic accuracy studies with multiple cut‐offs	13
A causal meta-analysis framework for clinical trials with unequal randomization ratios	13
Critical appraisal tools used in systematic reviews of in vitro cell culture studies: A methodological study	13
Causally interpretable meta‐analysis: Clearly defined causal effects and two case studies	13
RIMeta: An R shiny tool for estimating the reference interval from a meta‐analysis	12
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A practical guide to evaluating sensitivity of literature search strings for systematic reviews using relative recall	12
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Pitfalls in choosing data examples for methodological work: Bayesian approaches to a fixed effects meta‐analysis of zinc lozenges for the common cold	12
Development of a search filter to retrieve reports of interrupted time series studies from MEDLINE and PubMed	11
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Continuity corrections with Mantel–Haenszel estimators in Cochrane reviews	11
Reduce, reuse, recycle: Introducing MetaPipeX, a framework for analyses of multi‐lab data	11
Commercial funding and estimated intervention effects in randomized clinical trials: Systematic review of meta‐epidemiological studies	11
Tipping point analysis in network meta-analysis	11
Assessing risk of bias of cohort studies with large language models	10
Rare events meta‐analysis using the Bayesian beta‐binomial model	10
Using systems perspectives in evidence synthesis: A methodological mapping review	10
A re‐analysis of about 60,000 sparse data meta‐analyses suggests that using an adequate method for pooling matters	10
Combining meta‐analysis with multiple imputation for one‐step, privacy‐protecting estimation of causal treatment effects in multi‐site studies	10
An evaluation of the performance of stopping rules in AI‐aided screening for psychological meta‐analytical research	10
Accuracy and precision of fixed and random effects in meta‐analyses of randomized control trials for continuous outcomes	10
Appropriateness of conducting and reporting random‐effects meta‐analysis in oncology	10
StudyTypeTeller—Large language models to automatically classify research study types for systematic reviews	9

Adjusting for misclassification of an exposure in an individual participant data meta‐analysis	9
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Meta‐analyses of phase I dose‐finding studies: Application for the development of protein kinase inhibitors in oncology	9
Methods for using Bing's AI‐powered search engine for data extraction for a systematic review	9
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Estimating interactions and subgroup‐specific treatment effects in meta‐analysis without aggregation bias: A within‐trial framework	9
Meta-analytic pooling of intraclass correlation coefficient estimates	8
How should we handle predatory journals in evidence synthesis? A descriptive survey‐based cross‐sectional study of evidence synthesis experts	8
A critical reflection on computing the sampling variance of the partial correlation coefficient	8
Network meta-analysis made simple: A composite likelihood approach	8
Development and validation of a geographic search filter for MEDLINE (PubMed) to identify studies about Germany	8
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Network meta‐analysis: Looping back	8
Searchsmart.org: Guiding researchers to the best databases and search systems for systematic reviews and beyond	8
Sample size calculation for clinical trials analyzed with the meta‐analytic‐predictive approach	8
Consensus on the definition and assessment of external validity of randomized controlled trials: A Delphi study	8
Machine learning for identifying randomised controlled trials when conducting systematic reviews: Development and evaluation of its impact on practice	8
Exploring methodological approaches used in network meta‐analysis of psychological interventions: A scoping review	8
A novel robust meta-analysis model using the t distribution for outlier accommodation and detection	8
Treatment recommendations based on network meta-analysis: Rules for risk-averse decision-makers	8
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When conducting a systematic review, can one trade search efficiency for potential publication bias?	8
Methodological considerations for novel approaches to covariate‐adjusted indirect treatment comparisons	8
Bayes factor hypothesis testing in meta-analyses: Practical advantages and methodological considerations	7
Citationchaser: A tool for transparent and efficient forward and backward citation chasing in systematic searching	7
Meta‐analysis of dichotomous and ordinal tests with an imperfect gold standard	7
Scoping review search practices in the social sciences: A scoping review	7
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Robust variance estimation in small meta‐analysis with the standardized mean difference	7
metamedian: An R package for meta‐analyzing studies reporting medians	7
ccaR: A package for assessing primary study overlap across systematic reviews in overviews	7
The importance of plausible data‐generating mechanisms in simulation studies: A response to ‘Comparing methods for handling missing covariates in meta‐regression’ by Lee and Beretvas (doi: 10.1002/jrs	6
Diagnostic test accuracy meta-analysis based on an exact within-study variance calculation method	6
Assessment of temporal instability in the applied ecology and conservation evidence base	6
Two decades of network meta‐analysis: Roadmap to their applications and challenges	6
The hazards of using hazard ratios from proportional hazard models in indirect treatment comparisons	6
Improved methods to construct prediction intervals for network meta‐analysis	6
Evolving use of the Cochrane Risk of Bias 2 tool in biomedical systematic reviews	6
A tutorial on aggregating evidence from conceptual replication studies using the product Bayes factor	6
Advancing unanchored simulated treatment comparisons: A novel implementation and simulation study	6
Issue Information	6
Shiny-MAGEC: A Bayesian R shiny application for meta-analysis of censored adverse events	6
Correction to “Network Meta‐Interpolation: Effect modification adjustment in network meta‐analysis using subgroup analyses”	6
Calculating the power of a planned individual participant data meta‐analysis of randomised trials to examine a treatment‐covariate interaction with a time‐to‐event outcome	6
Ten practices for successful study coding in research syntheses: Developing coding manuals and coding forms	6
Combining estimators in interlaboratory studies and meta‐analyses	5
Two‐stage or not two‐stage? That is the question for IPD meta‐analysis projects	5
BibliZap: An exploratory evaluation of an automated multi-level citation searching tool for systematic and rapid reviews	5
Avoiding common mistakes in meta‐analysis: Understanding the distinct roles of Q, I‐squared, tau‐squared, and the prediction interval in reporting heterogeneity	5
A framework to characterise the reproducibility of meta‐analysis results with its application to direct oral anticoagulants in the acute treatment of venous thromboembolism	5
Evaluation of the interim Cochrane rapid review methods guidance—A mixed‐methods study on the understanding of and adherence to the guidance	5
‘Twenty years of network meta‐analysis: Continuing controversies and recent developments’: A health technology assessment perspective	5
Visualization toolkits for enriching meta-analyses through evidence maps, bibliometrics, and alternative impact metrics	5
Footprint of publication selection bias on meta‐analyses in medicine, environmental sciences, psychology, and economics	5
Strategizing AI utilization for psychological literature screening: A comparative analysis of machine learning algorithms and key factors to consider	5
Comparing methods for handling missing covariates in meta‐regression	5
What level of automation is “good enough”? A benchmark of large language models for meta-analysis data extraction	5
Making sense of conducting a critical interpretive synthesis: A scoping review	5
Uncertain about uncertainty in matching‐adjusted indirect comparisons? A simulation study to compare methods for variance estimation	4
Reverse chronology quota record screening for realist synthesis: Fostering causally rich extrapolations with a diverse and contemporaneous sample of literature	4
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”	4
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Investigation of bias due to selective inclusion of study effect estimates in meta‐analyses of nutrition research	4
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Bayesian random‐effects meta‐analysis with empirical heterogeneity priors for application in health technology assessment with very few studies	4
Estimation of heterogeneity variance based on a generalized Q statistic in meta‐analysis of log‐odds‐ratio	4
A comprehensive review and shiny application on the matching‐adjusted indirect comparison	4
Developing prediction models when there are systematically missing predictors in individual patient data meta‐analysis	4
Meta-analysis with Jeffreys priors: Empirical frequentist properties	4
Methods of multi-indication meta-analysis for health technology assessment: A simulation study	4
Synthesizing evidence from the earliest studies to support decision‐making: To what extent could the evidence be reliable?	4
Response to: ‘Additional considerations and response to Graphical Representation of Overlap for OVErviews (GROOVE tool)”	4
Paperfetcher: A tool to automate handsearching and citation searching for systematic reviews	4
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Why do researchers co‐author evidence syntheses with librarians? A mixed‐methods study	4
In‐depth evaluation of machine learning methods for semi‐automating article screening in a systematic review of mechanistic literature	4
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A comparison of two models for detecting inconsistency in network meta‐analysis	4
metaConvert: an automatic suite for estimation of 11 different effect size measures and flexible conversion across them	4
Aggregating and analysing clinical trials data from multiple public registers using R package ctrdata	4

Feasibility and desirability of screening search results from Google Search exhaustively for systematic reviews: A cross‐case analysis	4
Simple imputation method for meta-analysis of survival rates when precision information is missing	4
Translating systematic searches in the APA PsycInfo database from Ovid to EBSCOhost: A tutorial based on a filter translation	4
Limits in the search date for rapid reviews of diagnostic test accuracy studies	3
Bayesian approaches to fixed effects meta‐analysis	3
Automating the data extraction process for systematic reviews using GPT-4o and o3	3
Identifying and managing problematic trials: A research integrity assessment tool for randomized controlled trials in evidence synthesis	3
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What can we learn from 1,000 meta-analyses across 10 different disciplines?	3
Key concepts and reporting recommendations for mapping reviews: A scoping review of 68 guidance and methodological studies	3
Beyond human gold standards: A multimodel framework for automated abstract classification and information extraction	3
metaCOVID: A web‐application for living meta‐analyses of COVID‐19 trials	3
Generalizable and scalable multistage biomedical concept normalization leveraging large language models	3
Robust Bayesian meta‐analysis: Model‐averaging across complementary publication bias adjustment methods	3
The application of ROBINS-I guidance in systematic reviews of non-randomised studies: A descriptive study	3
Language inclusion in ecological systematic reviews and maps: Barriers and perspectives	3
The use of fixed study main effects in arm‐based network meta‐analysis	3
TheCONSENSYSapproach: An instrument to supportCONtextual SENsitivityinSYStematicreviews	3
ZIBGLMM: Zero-inflated bivariate generalized linear mixed model for meta-analysis with double-zero-event studies	3
Estimating pairwise overlap in umbrella reviews: Considerations for using the corrected covered area (CCA) index methodology	3
An open competition involving thousands of competitors failed to construct useful abstract classifiers for new diagnostic test accuracy systematic reviews	3
Predatory journals and their practices present a conundrum for systematic reviewers and evidence synthesisers of health research: A qualitative descriptive study	3
Automated citation searching in systematic review production: A simulation study	3