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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Advice for improving the reproducibility of data extraction in meta‐analysis	374
A mapping exercise using automated techniques to develop a search strategy to identify systematic review tools	333
Lord’s Paradox and two network meta-analysis models	155
How to conduct an individual participant data meta-analysis in response to an emerging pathogen: Lessons learned from Zika and COVID-19	145
Facilitating open science practices for research syntheses: PreregRS guides preregistration	131
An investigation of the impact of using contrast- and arm-synthesis models for network meta-analysis	124
Accuracy of conversion formula for effect sizes: A Monte Carlo simulation	99
Reported methodological quality of medical systematic reviews: Development of an assessment tool (ReMarQ) and meta-research study	91
Assessment of key characteristics, methodology, and effect size measures used in meta‐analysis of human‐health‐related animal studies	77
Bayesian workflow for bias-adjustment model in meta-analysis	69
What are the best methods for rapid reviews of the research evidence? A systematic review of reviews and primary studies	56
Meta‐analyses of partial correlations are biased: Detection and solutions	54
Towards the automatic risk of bias assessment on randomized controlled trials: A comparison of RobotReviewer and humans	50
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Synthesis of depression outcomes reported on different scales: A comparison of methods for modelling mean differences	37
Network meta analysis to predict the efficacy of an approved treatment in a new indication	36
Authors’ reply: Continuity corrections with Mantel–Haenszel estimators in Cochrane reviews	36
Exploring graphical approaches to assess the impact of an additional trial on a decision model via updated meta-analysis	33
Correct standard errors can bias meta‐analysis	31
CausalMetaR: An R package for performing causally interpretable meta-analyses	30
Capturing causal claims: A fine-tuned text mining model for extracting causal sentences from social science papers	30
Estimands and their implications for evidence synthesis for oncology: A simulation study of treatment switching in meta-analysis	26
Exploring the methodological quality and risk of bias in 200 systematic reviews: A comparative study of ROBIS and AMSTAR-2 tools	26
Incorporating the possibility of cure into network meta-analyses: A case study from resected Stage III/IV melanoma	26

Retrieving Cochrane reviews is sometimes challenging and their reporting is not always optimal	25
A comprehensive systematic review dataset is a rich resource for training and evaluation of AI systems for title and abstract screening	24
Bias propagation in network meta‐analysis models	24
Evaluation of semi-automated record screening methods for systematic reviews of prognosis studies and intervention studies	23
Data extraction for evidence synthesis using a large language model: A proof‐of‐concept study	21
Fast‐and‐frugal decision tree for the rapid critical appraisal of systematic reviews	21
Calculating the power of a planned individual participant data meta‐analysis to examine prognostic factor effects for a binary outcome	20
Issue Information	20
Regarding approaches to simulating random‐effects	20
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	20
Selecting a specialized education database for literature reviews and evidence synthesis projects	19
Graphical tools for visualizing the results of network meta‐analysis of multicomponent interventions	19
Bayesian Federated Inference for regression models based on non-shared medical center data	19
Issue Information	18
How to plan and manage an individual participant data meta‐analysis. An illustrative toolkit	18
Six ways to handle dependent effect sizes in meta-analytic structural equation modeling: Is there a gold standard?	17
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Missingness mechanism messiness in meta‐analysis: A response to “The importance of plausible data‐generating mechanisms in simulation studies”	17
Population adjusted‐indirect comparisons in health technology assessment: A methodological systematic review	17
Critical appraisal tools used in systematic reviews of in vitro cell culture studies: A methodological study	16
Validation of large language models (Llama 3 and ChatGPT-4o mini) for title and abstract screening in biomedical systematic reviews	16
Inclusive critical appraisal of qualitative and quantitative findings in evidence synthesis	16
Impact of trial attrition rates on treatment effect estimates in chronic inflammatory diseases: A meta‐epidemiological study	15
Using qualitative comparative analysis as a mixed methods synthesis in systematic mixed studies reviews: Guidance and a worked example	15
Double arcsine transform not appropriate for meta‐analysis	15
Combining search filters for randomized controlled trials with the Cochrane RCT Classifier in Covidence: a methodological validation study	15
Evaluation of statistical methods used to meta‐analyse results from interrupted time series studies: A simulation study	15
Twenty years of network meta‐analysis: Continuing controversies and recent developments	14
Parametric G‐computation for compatible indirect treatment comparisons with limited individual patient data	12
A semiparametric approach for meta‐analysis of diagnostic accuracy studies with multiple cut‐offs	12
Causally interpretable meta‐analysis: Clearly defined causal effects and two case studies	12
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RIMeta: An R shiny tool for estimating the reference interval from a meta‐analysis	12
A practical guide to evaluating sensitivity of literature search strings for systematic reviews using relative recall	12
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Issue Information	11
Appropriateness of conducting and reporting random‐effects meta‐analysis in oncology	10
A re‐analysis of about 60,000 sparse data meta‐analyses suggests that using an adequate method for pooling matters	10
Pitfalls in choosing data examples for methodological work: Bayesian approaches to a fixed effects meta‐analysis of zinc lozenges for the common cold	10
Reduce, reuse, recycle: Introducing MetaPipeX, a framework for analyses of multi‐lab data	10
Continuity corrections with Mantel–Haenszel estimators in Cochrane reviews	10
Crowdsourcing the identification of studies for COVID‐19‐related Cochrane Rapid Reviews	10
Tipping point analysis in network meta-analysis	10
Issue Information	10
Commercial funding and estimated intervention effects in randomized clinical trials: Systematic review of meta‐epidemiological studies	9
Development of a search filter to retrieve reports of interrupted time series studies from MEDLINE and PubMed	9
Using systems perspectives in evidence synthesis: A methodological mapping review	9
An evaluation of the performance of stopping rules in AI‐aided screening for psychological meta‐analytical research	8
Accuracy and precision of fixed and random effects in meta‐analyses of randomized control trials for continuous outcomes	8
Issue Information	8

Network meta‐analysis: Looping back	8
Rare events meta‐analysis using the Bayesian beta‐binomial model	8
Assessing risk of bias of cohort studies with large language models	8
Adjusting for misclassification of an exposure in an individual participant data meta‐analysis	8
Combining meta‐analysis with multiple imputation for one‐step, privacy‐protecting estimation of causal treatment effects in multi‐site studies	8
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A novel robust meta-analysis model using the t distribution for outlier accommodation and detection	8
How should we handle predatory journals in evidence synthesis? A descriptive survey‐based cross‐sectional study of evidence synthesis experts	7
Sample size calculation for clinical trials analyzed with the meta‐analytic‐predictive approach	7
StudyTypeTeller—Large language models to automatically classify research study types for systematic reviews	7
Network meta-analysis made simple: A composite likelihood approach	7
Graphical Representation of Overlap for OVErviews: GROOVE tool	7
Methodological considerations for novel approaches to covariate‐adjusted indirect treatment comparisons	7
A critical reflection on computing the sampling variance of the partial correlation coefficient	7
Exploring methodological approaches used in network meta‐analysis of psychological interventions: A scoping review	7
Consensus on the definition and assessment of external validity of randomized controlled trials: A Delphi study	7
Methods for using Bing's AI‐powered search engine for data extraction for a systematic review	7
Searchsmart.org: Guiding researchers to the best databases and search systems for systematic reviews and beyond	7
Estimating interactions and subgroup‐specific treatment effects in meta‐analysis without aggregation bias: A within‐trial framework	7
Treatment recommendations based on network meta-analysis: Rules for risk-averse decision-makers	7
Meta‐analyses of phase I dose‐finding studies: Application for the development of protein kinase inhibitors in oncology	7
Reverse‐Bayes methods for evidence assessment and research synthesis	7
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