OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

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
Meta-analytic-predictive priors based on a single study	58
Bayesian workflow for bias-adjustment model in meta-analysis	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
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
Retrieving Cochrane reviews is sometimes challenging and their reporting is not always optimal	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
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
Correct standard errors can bias meta‐analysis	26
Selecting a specialized education database for literature reviews and evidence synthesis projects	25
Bayesian Federated Inference for regression models based on non-shared medical center data	25
How to plan and manage an individual participant data meta‐analysis. An illustrative toolkit	23
Calculating the power of a planned individual participant data meta‐analysis to examine prognostic factor effects for a binary outcome	23
Graphical tools for visualizing the results of network meta‐analysis of multicomponent interventions	22
Issue Information	20
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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
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
Impact of trial attrition rates on treatment effect estimates in chronic inflammatory diseases: A meta‐epidemiological study	17
Parametric G‐computation for compatible indirect treatment comparisons with limited individual patient data	16
Double arcsine transform not appropriate for meta‐analysis	16
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
Using qualitative comparative analysis as a mixed methods synthesis in systematic mixed studies reviews: Guidance and a worked example	14
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
A semiparametric approach for meta‐analysis of diagnostic accuracy studies with multiple cut‐offs	13
A practical guide to evaluating sensitivity of literature search strings for systematic reviews using relative recall	12
Issue Information	12
Pitfalls in choosing data examples for methodological work: Bayesian approaches to a fixed effects meta‐analysis of zinc lozenges for the common cold	12
RIMeta: An R shiny tool for estimating the reference interval from a meta‐analysis	12
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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
Development of a search filter to retrieve reports of interrupted time series studies from MEDLINE and PubMed	11
Issue Information	11
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
Assessing risk of bias of cohort studies with large language models	10
Rare events meta‐analysis using the Bayesian beta‐binomial model	10
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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
Issue Information	9
Estimating interactions and subgroup‐specific treatment effects in meta‐analysis without aggregation bias: A within‐trial framework	9
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
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
Consensus on the definition and assessment of external validity of randomized controlled trials: A Delphi study	8
Treatment recommendations based on network meta-analysis: Rules for risk-averse decision-makers	8
Machine learning for identifying randomised controlled trials when conducting systematic reviews: Development and evaluation of its impact on practice	8
Methodological considerations for novel approaches to covariate‐adjusted indirect treatment comparisons	8
Meta-analytic pooling of intraclass correlation coefficient estimates	8
Issue Information	8
How should we handle predatory journals in evidence synthesis? A descriptive survey‐based cross‐sectional study of evidence synthesis experts	8
When conducting a systematic review, can one trade search efficiency for potential publication bias?	8
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Network meta‐analysis: Looping back	8
A critical reflection on computing the sampling variance of the partial correlation coefficient	8
Searchsmart.org: Guiding researchers to the best databases and search systems for systematic reviews and beyond	8
Network meta-analysis made simple: A composite likelihood approach	8
Sample size calculation for clinical trials analyzed with the meta‐analytic‐predictive approach	8
Development and validation of a geographic search filter for MEDLINE (PubMed) to identify studies about Germany	8