| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | A basic introduction to fixed-effect and random-effects models for meta-analysis | Research Synthesis Methods | 2010 | 4,057 |
| 2 | A scoping review of scoping reviews: advancing the approach and enhancing the consistency | Research Synthesis Methods | 2014 | 1,838 |
| 3 | Risk‐of‐bias VISualization (robvis): An R package and Shiny web app for visualizing risk‐of‐bias assessments | Research Synthesis Methods | 2021 | 1,646 |
| 4 | Outlier and influence diagnostics for meta-analysis | Research Synthesis Methods | 2010 | 1,479 |
| 5 | Robust variance estimation in meta‐regression with dependent effect size estimates | Research Synthesis Methods | 2010 | 1,286 |
| 6 | Consistency and inconsistency in network meta‐analysis: concepts and models for multi‐arm studies | Research Synthesis Methods | 2012 | 1,283 |
| 7 | Indirect and mixed‐treatment comparison, network, or multiple‐treatments meta‐analysis: many names, many benefits, many concerns for the next generation evidence synthesis tool | Research Synthesis Methods | 2012 | 1,112 |
| 8 | Basics of meta‐analysis: I2 is not an absolute measure of heterogeneity | Research Synthesis Methods | 2017 | 1,108 |
| 9 | Methods to estimate the between‐study variance and its uncertainty in meta‐analysis | Research Synthesis Methods | 2016 | 891 |
| 10 | Consistency and inconsistency in network meta‐analysis: model estimation using multivariate meta‐regression | Research Synthesis Methods | 2012 | 808 |
| 11 | Which academic search systems are suitable for systematic reviews or meta‐analyses? Evaluating retrieval qualities of Google Scholar, PubMed, and 26 other resources | Research Synthesis Methods | 2020 | 712 |
| 12 | Introduction, comparison, and validation of Meta‐Essentials: A free and simple tool for meta‐analysis | Research Synthesis Methods | 2017 | 560 |
| 13 | Automating network meta‐analysis | Research Synthesis Methods | 2012 | 523 |
| 14 | Meta-regression approximations to reduce publication selection bias | Research Synthesis Methods | 2014 | 488 |
| 15 | Searching for grey literature for systematic reviews: challenges and benefits | Research Synthesis Methods | 2014 | 473 |
| 16 | Network meta‐analysis, electrical networks and graph theory | Research Synthesis Methods | 2012 | 469 |
| 17 | A comparison of heterogeneity variance estimators in simulated random‐effects meta‐analyses | Research Synthesis Methods | 2019 | 460 |
| 18 | Meta‐analysis and Mendelian randomization: A review | Research Synthesis Methods | 2019 | 455 |
| 19 | Robust variance estimation with dependent effect sizes: practical considerations including a software tutorial in Stata and spss | Research Synthesis Methods | 2014 | 408 |
| 20 | Power analysis for random‐effects meta‐analysis | Research Synthesis Methods | 2017 | 389 |
| 21 | Automated generation of node‐splitting models for assessment of inconsistency in network meta‐analysis | Research Synthesis Methods | 2016 | 372 |
| 22 | Fixed effects and variance components estimation in three-level meta-analysis | Research Synthesis Methods | 2011 | 352 |
| 23 | Using network meta‐analysis to evaluate the existence of small‐study effects in a network of interventions | Research Synthesis Methods | 2012 | 339 |
| 24 | Seriously misleading results using inverse of Freeman‐Tukey double arcsine transformation in meta‐analysis of single proportions | Research Synthesis Methods | 2019 | 337 |
| 25 | Using logic models to capture complexity in systematic reviews | Research Synthesis Methods | 2011 | 280 |
| 26 | Machine learning for identifying Randomized Controlled Trials: An evaluation and practitioner's guide | Research Synthesis Methods | 2018 | 262 |
| 27 | Optimally estimating the sample standard deviation from the five‐number summary | Research Synthesis Methods | 2020 | 243 |
| 28 | Get real in individual participant data (IPD) meta‐analysis: a review of the methodology | Research Synthesis Methods | 2015 | 241 |
| 29 | GetReal in network meta‐analysis: a review of the methodology | Research Synthesis Methods | 2016 | 237 |
| 30 | A standardized mean difference effect size for single case designs | Research Synthesis Methods | 2012 | 226 |
| 31 | Pooling health‐related quality of life outcomes in meta‐analysis—a tutorial and review of methods for enhancing interpretability | Research Synthesis Methods | 2011 | 191 |
| 32 | Non‐randomized studies as a source of complementary, sequential or replacement evidence for randomized controlled trials in systematic reviews on the effects of interventions | Research Synthesis Methods | 2013 | 187 |
| 33 | Assessing key assumptions of network meta‐analysis: a review of methods | Research Synthesis Methods | 2013 | 178 |
| 34 | Graphical displays for meta‐analysis: An overview with suggestions for practice | Research Synthesis Methods | 2010 | 175 |
| 35 | Assessing baseline imbalance in randomised trials: implications for the Cochrane risk of bias tool | Research Synthesis Methods | 2014 | 175 |
| 36 | Estimating data from figures with a Web‐based program: Considerations for a systematic review | Research Synthesis Methods | 2017 | 169 |
| 37 | A standardized mean difference effect size for multiple baseline designs across individuals | Research Synthesis Methods | 2013 | 162 |
| 38 | GOSH – a graphical display of study heterogeneity | Research Synthesis Methods | 2012 | 154 |
| 39 | Neither fixed nor random: weighted least squares meta‐regression | Research Synthesis Methods | 2017 | 154 |
| 40 | Applications of text mining within systematic reviews | Research Synthesis Methods | 2011 | 146 |
| 41 | Quality assessment of qualitative evidence for systematic review and synthesis: Is it meaningful, and if so, how should it be performed? | Research Synthesis Methods | 2015 | 145 |
| 42 | Issues relating to study design and risk of bias when including non‐randomized studies in systematic reviews on the effects of interventions | Research Synthesis Methods | 2013 | 143 |
| 43 | Testing for funnel plot asymmetry of standardized mean differences | Research Synthesis Methods | 2019 | 140 |
| 44 | Best practice guidelines for abstract screening large‐evidence systematic reviews and meta‐analyses | Research Synthesis Methods | 2019 | 138 |
| 45 | revtools: An R package to support article screening for evidence synthesis | Research Synthesis Methods | 2019 | 136 |
| 46 | Detecting small‐study effects and funnel plot asymmetry in meta‐analysis of survival data: A comparison of new and existing tests | Research Synthesis Methods | 2018 | 135 |
| 47 | Dealing with effect size multiplicity in systematic reviews and meta‐analyses | Research Synthesis Methods | 2018 | 134 |
| 48 | MetaInsight: An interactive web‐based tool for analyzing, interrogating, and visualizing network meta‐analyses using R‐shiny and netmeta | Research Synthesis Methods | 2019 | 134 |
| 49 | Methods for evidence synthesis in the case of very few studies | Research Synthesis Methods | 2018 | 132 |
| 50 | Meta‐analysis of few small studies in orphan diseases | Research Synthesis Methods | 2017 | 126 |
