Research Synthesis Methods

Papers
(The TQCC of Research Synthesis Methods is 8. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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Accuracy of conversion formula for effect sizes: A Monte Carlo simulation328
An investigation of the impact of using contrast- and arm-synthesis models for network meta-analysis281
Advice for improving the reproducibility of data extraction in meta‐analysis164
Facilitating open science practices for research syntheses: PreregRS guides preregistration131
Reported methodological quality of medical systematic reviews: Development of an assessment tool (ReMarQ) and meta-research study131
A mapping exercise using automated techniques to develop a search strategy to identify systematic review tools108
Towards the automatic risk of bias assessment on randomized controlled trials: A comparison of RobotReviewer and humans98
Assessment of key characteristics, methodology, and effect size measures used in meta‐analysis of human‐health‐related animal studies75
The age of abundant scholarly information and its synthesis– A time when ‘just google it’ is no longer enough70
What are the best methods for rapid reviews of the research evidence? A systematic review of reviews and primary studies65
Meta‐analyses of partial correlations are biased: Detection and solutions63
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Fast‐and‐frugal decision tree for the rapid critical appraisal of systematic reviews40
Bias propagation in network meta‐analysis models37
Retrieving Cochrane reviews is sometimes challenging and their reporting is not always optimal34
Authors’ reply: Continuity corrections with Mantel–Haenszel estimators in Cochrane reviews32
Exploring graphical approaches to assess the impact of an additional trial on a decision model via updated meta-analysis31
Correct standard errors can bias meta‐analysis30
Network meta analysis to predict the efficacy of an approved treatment in a new indication29
CausalMetaR: An R package for performing causally interpretable meta-analyses28
Methods for population adjustment with limited access to individual patient data: A review and simulation study27
Capturing causal claims: A fine-tuned text mining model for extracting causal sentences from social science papers27
A comprehensive systematic review dataset is a rich resource for training and evaluation of AI systems for title and abstract screening24
Evaluation of semi-automated record screening methods for systematic reviews of prognosis studies and intervention studies24
Reporting of Cochrane systematic review protocols with network meta‐analyses—A scoping review23
Synthesis of depression outcomes reported on different scales: A comparison of methods for modelling mean differences22
Selecting a specialized education database for literature reviews and evidence synthesis projects21
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Calculating the power of a planned individual participant data meta‐analysis to examine prognostic factor effects for a binary outcome21
Regarding approaches to simulating random‐effects21
Data extraction for evidence synthesis using a large language model: A proof‐of‐concept study21
Bayesian Federated Inference for regression models based on non-shared medical center data21
Graphical tools for visualizing the results of network meta‐analysis of multicomponent interventions20
Sensitivity analysis for reporting bias on the time-dependent summary receiver operating characteristics curve in meta-analysis of prognosis studies with time-to-event outcomes20
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How to plan and manage an individual participant data meta‐analysis. An illustrative toolkit19
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Cumulative meta‐analysis: What works19
Population adjusted‐indirect comparisons in health technology assessment: A methodological systematic review18
Parametric G‐computation for compatible indirect treatment comparisons with limited individual patient data18
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”17
Inclusive critical appraisal of qualitative and quantitative findings in evidence synthesis17
Evaluation of statistical methods used to meta‐analyse results from interrupted time series studies: A simulation study17
Impact of trial attrition rates on treatment effect estimates in chronic inflammatory diseases: A meta‐epidemiological study17
Using qualitative comparative analysis as a mixed methods synthesis in systematic mixed studies reviews: Guidance and a worked example16
Critical appraisal tools used in systematic reviews of in vitro cell culture studies: A methodological study16
Combining search filters for randomized controlled trials with the Cochrane RCT Classifier in Covidence: a methodological validation study16
Validation of large language models (Llama 3 and ChatGPT-4o mini) for title and abstract screening in biomedical systematic reviews16
Double arcsine transform not appropriate for meta‐analysis15
Twenty years of network meta‐analysis: Continuing controversies and recent developments15
Bibliometric study of ‘overviews of systematic reviews’ of health interventions: Evaluation of prevalence, citation and journal impact factor15
A semiparametric approach for meta‐analysis of diagnostic accuracy studies with multiple cut‐offs14
Causally interpretable meta‐analysis: Clearly defined causal effects and two case studies14
RIMeta: An R shiny tool for estimating the reference interval from a meta‐analysis13
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A practical guide to evaluating sensitivity of literature search strings for systematic reviews using relative recall13
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Crowdsourcing the identification of studies for COVID‐19‐related Cochrane Rapid Reviews11
Reduce, reuse, recycle: Introducing MetaPipeX, a framework for analyses of multi‐lab data11
Pitfalls in choosing data examples for methodological work: Bayesian approaches to a fixed effects meta‐analysis of zinc lozenges for the common cold11
Appropriateness of conducting and reporting random‐effects meta‐analysis in oncology11
Continuity corrections with Mantel–Haenszel estimators in Cochrane reviews11
Development of a search filter to retrieve reports of interrupted time series studies from MEDLINE and PubMed10
An evaluation of the performance of stopping rules in AI‐aided screening for psychological meta‐analytical research10
Commercial funding and estimated intervention effects in randomized clinical trials: Systematic review of meta‐epidemiological studies10
Response to Gusenbauer M, Haddaway NR “What every researcher should know about searching – Clarified concepts, search advice, and an agenda to improve finding in academia”10
A re‐analysis of about 60,000 sparse data meta‐analyses suggests that using an adequate method for pooling matters10
Combining meta‐analysis with multiple imputation for one‐step, privacy‐protecting estimation of causal treatment effects in multi‐site studies10
Using systems perspectives in evidence synthesis: A methodological mapping review10
Tipping point analysis in network meta-analysis10
Assessing risk of bias of cohort studies with large language models10
Accuracy and precision of fixed and random effects in meta‐analyses of randomized control trials for continuous outcomes9
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Rare events meta‐analysis using the Bayesian beta‐binomial model9
Exploring methodological approaches used in network meta‐analysis of psychological interventions: A scoping review8
Reverse‐Bayes methods for evidence assessment and research synthesis8
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A novel robust meta-analysis model using the t distribution for outlier accommodation and detection8
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How should we handle predatory journals in evidence synthesis? A descriptive survey‐based cross‐sectional study of evidence synthesis experts8
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