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Zachary Munn, Cindy Stern, Edoardo Aromataris, Craig Lockwood + 1 more
'Zoe Jordan'] Background Systematic reviews have been considered as the pillar on which evidence-based healthcare rests. Systematic review methodology has evolved and been modified over the years to accommodate the range of questions that may arise in the health and medical sciences. This paper explores a concept still…
Alexander Muacevic, John R Adler, Nusrat Jahan, Sadiq Naveed + 2 more
'Muhammad Zeshan' 'Muhammad A Tahir'] Systematic reviews are ranked very high in research and are considered the most valid form of medical evidence. They provide a complete summary of the current literature relevant to a research question and can be of immense use to medical professionals. Our goal with this paper is…
David Moher, Lesley Stewart, Paul Shekelle
Welcome to a new age in publishing systematic reviews. We hope the launch of Systematic Reviews will resonate with a broad spectrum of readers interested in using them in a variety of ways, such as providing comprehensive and up to date evidence for patient management, informing health policy, and developing rigorous…
Steffen Mickenautsch
Background Since its inception, evidence-based medicine and its application through systematic reviews, has been widely accepted. However, it has also been strongly criticised and resisted by some academic groups and clinicians. One of the main criticisms of evidence-based medicine is that it appears to claim to have…
Joerg J. Meerpohl, Florian Herrle, Gerd Antes, Erik von Elm + 1 more
'Nitika Pant Pai'] Background Synthesizing research evidence using systematic and rigorous methods has become a key feature of evidence-based medicine and knowledge translation. Systematic reviews (SRs) may or may not include a meta-analysis depending on the suitability of available data. They are often being…
Marisa C. Mancini, Jefferson R. Cardoso, Rosana F. Sampaio, Lucíola C. M. Costa + 2 more
Physical Therapy (BJPT) Authors: ['Marisa C. Mancini' 'Jefferson R. Cardoso' 'Rosana F. Sampaio' 'Lucíola C. M. Costa' 'Cristina M. N. Cabral' 'Leonardo O. P. Costa'] Systematic reviews aim to summarize all evidence using very rigorous methods in order to address a specific research question with less bias as possible.…
Mayura Thilanka Iddagoda, Leon Flicker
Objective Systematic reviews answer research questions through a defined methodology. It is a complex task and multiple articles need to be referred to acquire wide range of required knowledge to conduct a systematic review. The aim of this article is to bring the process into a single paper. Method The statistical…
Sebastian Baltes, Paul Ralph
The goal of this chapter is to support teachers in holistically introducing graduate students to literature reviews, with a particular focus on secondary research. It provides an overview of the overall literature review process and the different types of literature review before diving into guidelines for selecting…
Paul Ralph, Sebastian Baltes
Literature Review Authors: ['Paul Ralph' 'Sebastian Baltes'] Confusion over different kinds of secondary research, and their divergent purposes, is undermining the effectiveness and usefulness of secondary studies in software engineering. This short paper therefore explains the differences between ad hoc review, case…
Neal R Haddaway, Martin J Westgate
Systematic reviews aim to maximise transparency and comprehensiveness, whilst also minimising subjectivity and sources of bias. Because of these time-consuming and complex tasks, systematic reviews are perceived as being resource-intensive. To date, published estimates of systematic review resource requirements have…
L.S. Le Clercq
Systematic reviews are critical summaries of the exiting literature on a given subject and, when combined with meta-analysis, provides a quantitative synthesis of evidence to direct and inform future research. Such reviews must, however, account for complex sources of between study heterogeneity and possible sources of…
Thomas Bozada, James Borden, Jeffrey Workman, Mardo Del Cid + 2 more
Well-curated datasets are essential to evidence based decision making and to the integration of artificial intelligence with human reasoning across disciplines. However, many sources of data remain siloed, unstructured, and/or unavailable for complementary and secondary research. Sysrev was developed to address these…
Alex Kale, Matthew Kay, Jessica Hullman
To make evidence-based recommendations to decision-makers, researchers conducting systematic reviews and meta-analyses must navigate a garden of forking paths: a series of analytical decision-points, each of which has the potential to influence findings. To identify challenges and opportunities related to designing…
Liat Shenhav, Ruth Heller, Yoav Benjamini
In order to assess the effect of a health care intervention, it is useful to look at an ensemble of relevant studies. The Cochrane Collaboration's admirable goal is to provide systematic reviews of all relevant clinical studies, in order to establish whether or not there is a conclusive evidence about a specific…
Katja Rogers, Katie Seaborn
The field of human-computer interaction (HCI) is maturing. Systematic reviews, a staple of many disciplines, play an important and often essential role in how each field contributes to human knowledge. On this prospect, we argue that our meta-level approach to research within HCI needs a revolution. First, we echo…
Claudia Hacke, David Nunan
To assess the degree of concordance between Cochrane and non-Cochrane systematic reviews with meta-analyses of physical activity interventions. We conducted a matched-pair analysis with individual meta-analyses as the unit of analysis, comparing Cochrane reviews of randomised controlled trials of physical activity…
Martin J. Westgate
The field of evidence synthesis is growing rapidly, with a corresponding increase in the number of software tools and workflows to support the construction of systematic reviews, systematic maps, and meta-analyses. Despite much progress, however, a number of problems remain including slow integration of new statistical…
Jinkun Men, Guohua Chen, Tao Zeng
As one of the typical safety-critical systems, the chemical process industry (CPI) is congested with high-risk industrial processes, usually prone to the so-called multi-hazard coupling scenarios. One of the toughest challenges is analyzing the mutually amplified phenomena between various hazards, known as…
Tesfa Dejenie Habtewold, Sisay Mulugeta Alemu, Shimels Hussien Mohammed, Aklilu Endalamaw + 5 more
Globally, there has been a dramatic increment of narrative reviews, systematic reviews and overview publication rates. In Ethiopia, only small number of reviews are published and no overviews conducted in biomedical and public health disciplines. Therefore, we aimed to (1) assess the trend of narrative and systematic…
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Specifications grading is an alternative grading system that has been used with increasing frequency in higher education. Since first introduced by Linda Nilson in 2014, more than 91 publications on the design and implementation of specifications grading systems have been published. This work presents a systematic…
Vahid Garousi, Michael Felderer, Mika Mäntylä
Context: A Multivocal Literature Review (MLR) is a form of a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) which includes the grey literature (e.g., blog posts, videos and white papers) in addition to the published (formal) literature (e.g., journal and conference papers). MLRs are useful for both researchers and practitioners…
Hoi‐Jeong Lim, Su-Hyeon Park
— Meta-analysis is a statistical method that combines the results of individual studies on the same topic. This method is becoming popular, due to providing the combined result that individual studies cannot provide and giving a more precise result. Despite meta-analysis having such significance, there are few Korean…
Manman Zhu, Xinyue Lu, Fuyou Chen, Liying Yang + 1 more
Accurately assigning the document type of review articles in citation index databases like Web of Science(WoS) and Scopus is important. This study aims to investigate the document type assignation of review articles in web of Science, Scopus and Journals' website in a large scale. 27,616 papers from 160 journals from…
Curtis Berlinguette, Nathaniel Gabor, Yogesh Surendranath
We offer here a “Refereeing Template” to guide a more constructive and systematic peer review process. This template provides the following algorithm for constructing a peer review: (i) list the key claims of the manuscript; (ii) determine if the data (and interpretations of the data) support said claims; and, only as…
Montgomery Gray, Paige Bowling, John Herbert
A widespread belief persists that the Boys-Bernardi function counterpoise (CP) procedure "overcorrects" supramolecular interaction energies for the effects of basis-set superposition error. To the extent that this is true for correlated wave function methods, it is usually an artifact of low-quality basis sets, but the…
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Selection of efficient multi-step synthesis routes is a fundamental challenge in organic synthesis. Comparing different routes involves numerous parameters, economic considerations, and integration of nuanced chemical knowledge. While computer-aided synthesis planning (CASP) tools can generate synthetic routes…