OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Research Synthesis Methods is 7. 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.)

Article	Citations
Risk‐of‐bias VISualization (robvis): An R package and Shiny web app for visualizing risk‐of‐bias assessments	1641
Optimally estimating the sample standard deviation from the five‐number summary	239
Meta‐analysis of prevalence: I² statistic and how to deal with heterogeneity	134
Investigating and dealing with publication bias and other reporting biases in meta‐analyses of health research: A review	118
The orchard plot: Cultivating a forest plot for use in ecology, evolution, and beyond	109
Citationchaser: A tool for transparent and efficient forward and backward citation chasing in systematic searching	99
The effect direction plot revisited: Application of the 2019 Cochrane Handbook guidance on alternative synthesis methods	81
Introduction to PRISMA 2020 and implications for research synthesis methodologists	79
Graphical enhancements to summary receiver operating characteristic plots to facilitate the analysis and reporting of meta‐analysis of diagnostic test accuracy data	73
A historical review of publication bias	68
On weakly informative prior distributions for the heterogeneity parameter in Bayesian random‐effects meta‐analysis	54
Zero‐cell corrections in random‐effects meta‐analyses	52
Graphical Representation of Overlap for OVErviews: GROOVE tool	52
Funnel plots may show asymmetry in the absence of publication bias with continuous outcomes dependent on baseline risk: presentation of a new publication bias test	50
Using artificial intelligence methods for systematic review in health sciences: A systematic review	46
Revisiting and expanding the meta‐analysis of variation: The log coefficient of variation ratio	42
Improving the reporting quality of reliability generalization meta‐analyses: The REGEMA checklist	42
Detecting publication selection bias through excess statistical significance	34
Meta‐analytic structural equation modeling made easy: A tutorial and web application for one‐stage MASEM	34
Estimating publication bias in meta‐analyses of peer‐reviewed studies: A meta‐meta‐analysis across disciplines and journal tiers	33
Applying and reporting relevance, richness and rigour in realist evidence appraisals: Advancing key concepts in realist reviews	28
Estimating the prevalence of missing experiments in a neuroimaging meta‐analysis	28
Robust Bayesian meta‐analysis: Model‐averaging across complementary publication bias adjustment methods	27
Identifying and managing problematic trials: A research integrity assessment tool for randomized controlled trials in evidence synthesis	26
Creating effective interrupted time series graphs: Review and recommendations	26

Methods for population adjustment with limited access to individual patient data: A review and simulation study	25
The application of AMSTAR2 in 32 overviews of systematic reviews of interventions for mental and behavioural disorders: A cross‐sectional study	23
Using information‐theoretic approaches for model selection in meta‐analysis	22
What every researcher should know about searching – clarified concepts, search advice, and an agenda to improve finding in academia	22
Barriers and facilitators systematic reviews in health: A methodological review and recommendations for reviewers	21
Development and validation of study filters for identifying controlled non‐randomized studies in PubMed and Ovid MEDLINE	20
Lost in reviews: Looking for the involvement of stakeholders, patients, public and other non‐researcher contributors in realist reviews	19
ccaR: A package for assessing primary study overlap across systematic reviews in overviews	19
The Kilim plot: A tool for visualizing network meta‐analysis results for multiple outcomes	18
Data sharing—trialists' plans at registration, attitudes, barriers and facilitators: A cohort study and cross‐sectional survey	18
Methodological guidance for rapid reviews in healthcare: A scoping review	16
A generalized‐weights solution to sample overlap in meta‐analysis	16
What you see depends on where you sit: The effect of geographical location on web‐searching for systematic reviews: A case study	16
Variations of mixed methods reviews approaches: A case study	16
Alternative weighting schemes when performing matching‐adjusted indirect comparisons	15
Outlier detection and influence diagnostics in network meta‐analysis	15
Synthesis of evidence from zero‐events studies: A comparison of one‐stage framework methods	14
Evaluation of the comprehensiveness, accuracy and currency of the Cochrane COVID‐19 Study Register for supporting rapid evidence synthesis production	14
Estimating the reference range from a meta‐analysis	14
Assessing context suitability (generalizability, external validity, applicability or transferability) of findings in evidence syntheses in healthcare—An integrative review of methodological guidance	14
Applying machine classifiers to update searches: Analysis from two case studies	14
Parametric G‐computation for compatible indirect treatment comparisons with limited individual patient data	14
Meta‐analysis of continuous outcomes: Using pseudo IPD created from aggregate data to adjust for baseline imbalance and assess treatment‐by‐baseline modification	14
Equivalence of entropy balancing and the method of moments for matching‐adjusted indirect comparison	13
Extracting data from graphs: A case‐study on animal research with implications for meta‐analyses	13
How to decide whether a systematic review is stable and not in need of updating: Analysis of Cochrane reviews	13
Using Monte Carlo experiments to select meta‐analytic estimators	13
Using collaboration networks to identify authorship dependence in meta‐analysis results	13
A critical reflection on computing the sampling variance of the partial correlation coefficient	12
The ScHARR LMIC filter: Adapting a low‐ and middle‐income countries geographic search filter to identify studies on preterm birth prevention and management	12
Retrospective median power, false positive meta‐analysis and large‐scale replication	11
Citation tracking for systematic literature searching: A scoping review	11
Assessing the risk of bias in choice of search sources for environmental meta‐analyses	11
Bibliometric study of ‘overviews of systematic reviews’ of health interventions: Evaluation of prevalence, citation and journal impact factor	11
Reverse‐Bayes methods for evidence assessment and research synthesis	10
Interval estimation of the overall treatment effect in random‐effects meta‐analyses: Recommendations from a simulation study comparing frequentist, Bayesian, and bootstrap methods	10
A new taxonomy was developed for overlap across 'overviews of systematic reviews': A meta‐research study of research waste	10
Degree irregularity and rank probability bias in network meta‐analysis	10
Cumulative meta‐analysis: What works	10
The age of abundant scholarly information and its synthesis– A time when ‘just google it’ is no longer enough	10
IPDmada: An R Shiny tool for analyzing and visualizing individual patient data meta‐analyses of diagnostic test accuracy	9
Study specific prediction intervals for random‐effects meta‐analysis: A tutorial	9
Utilizing radar graphs in the visualization of simulation and estimation results in network meta‐analysis	9
An empirical comparison of three methods for multiple cutoff diagnostic test meta‐analysis of the Patient Health Questionnaire‐9 (PHQ‐9) depression screening tool using published data vs in	9
Meta‐analyzing individual participant data from studies with complex survey designs: A tutorial on using the two‐stage approach for data from educational large‐scale a	9
Double arcsine transform not appropriate for meta‐analysis	9
Rapid evidence synthesis approach for limits on the search date: How rapid could it be?	9
A Bayesian approach to assessing small‐study effects in meta‐analysis of a binary outcome with controlled false positive rate	9
Location‐scale models for meta‐analysis	9
Reevaluation of statistically significant meta‐analyses in advanced cancer patients using the Hartung–Knapp method and prediction intervals—A methodological study	9

Enhanced access to recommendations from the Cochrane Handbook for improving authors' judgments about risk of bias: A randomized controlled trial	8
Examining how meta‐analytic methods perform in the presence of bias: A simulation study	8
Interactive Web‐based Data Visualization and Analysis Tool for Synthetizing on‐farm Research Networks Data	8
On the moments of Cochran's Q statistic under the null hypothesis, with application to the meta‐analysis of risk difference	8
Including non‐English language articles in systematic reviews: A reflection on processes for identifying low‐cost sources of translation support	8
Machine learning in systematic reviews: Comparing automated text clustering with Lingo3G and human researcher categorization in a rapid review	8
In‐depth evaluation of machine learning methods for semi‐automating article screening in a systematic review of mechanistic literature	8
Paperfetcher: A tool to automate handsearching and citation searching for systematic reviews	7
Machine learning for identifying relevant publications in updates of systematic reviews of diagnostic test studies	7
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When is the evidence conclusive? Analysis of systematic reviews for which Cochrane declared that conclusions will not change with further studies	7
Quantifying the robustness of primary analysis results: A case study on missing outcome data in pairwise and network meta‐analysis	7
Risk of bias assessment in preclinical literature using natural language processing	7
Systematic review of the methodological literature for integrating qualitative evidence syntheses into health guideline development	7
Cluster wild bootstrapping to handle dependent effect sizes in meta‐analysis with a small number of studies	7
A search of only four key databases would identify most randomized controlled trials of acupuncture: A meta‐epidemiological study	7