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Direct linkKlopfenstein, D. V.; Dampier, Will – Research Synthesis Methods, 2021
We read with considerable interest the study by Gusenbauer and Haddaway (Gusenbauer and Haddaway, 2020, Research Synthesis Methods, doi:10.1002/jrsm.1378) comparing the systematic search qualities of 28 search systems, including Google Scholar (GS) and PubMed. Google Scholar and PubMed are the two most popular free academic search tools in biology…
Descriptors: Search Engines, Search Strategies, Databases, Information Retrieval
Liu, Shifeng; Bourgeois, Florence T.; Dunn, Adam G. – Research Synthesis Methods, 2022
A substantial proportion of trial registrations are not linked to corresponding published articles, limiting analyses and new tools. Our aim was to develop a method for finding articles reporting the results of trials that are registered on ClinicalTrials.gov when they do not include metadata links. We used a set of 27,280 trial registration and…
Descriptors: Medical Research, Web Sites, Identification, Computational Linguistics
Gusenbauer, Michael; Haddaway, Neal R. – Research Synthesis Methods, 2020
Rigorous evidence identification is essential for systematic reviews and meta-analyses (evidence syntheses) because the sample selection of relevant studies determines a review's outcome, validity, and explanatory power. Yet, the search systems allowing access to this evidence provide varying levels of precision, recall, and reproducibility and…
Descriptors: Evidence, Databases, Meta Analysis, Validity
Huiskens, Joost; Kool, Boudewijn R. J.; Bakker, Jean-Michel; Bruns, Emma R. J.; de Jonge, Stijn W.; Olthof, Pim B.; van Rosmalen, Belle V.; van Gulik, Thomas M.; Hooft, Lotty; Punt, Cornelis J. A. – Research Synthesis Methods, 2020
Introduction: Registration of clinical trials has been initiated in order to assess adherence of the reported results to the original trial protocol. This study aimed to investigate the publication rates, timely dissemination of results, and the prevalence of consistency in hypothesis, sample size, and primary endpoint of Dutch…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Databases, Foreign Countries, Medical Research
Nejstgaard, Camilla Hansen; Lundh, Andreas; Abdi, Suhayb; Clayton, Gemma; Gelle, Mustafe Hassan Adan; Laursen, David Ruben Teindl; Olorisade, Babatunde Kazeem; Savovic, Jelena; Hróbjartsson, Asbjørn – Research Synthesis Methods, 2022
Randomised trials are often funded by commercial companies and methodological studies support a widely held suspicion that commercial funding may influence trial results and conclusions. However, these studies often have a risk of confounding and reporting bias. The risk of confounding is markedly reduced in meta-epidemiological studies that…
Descriptors: Medical Research, Randomized Controlled Trials, Corporations, Financial Support
Rogers, Morwenna; Bethel, Alison; Briscoe, Simon – Research Synthesis Methods, 2020
Background: Forwards citation searching is a valuable method for finding relevant studies in reviews where concepts are not clearly defined. Scopus and Web of Science can both be used for forwards citation searching but there is little evidence comparing the resources for this purpose. Method: 104 source records relevant to a scoping review of…
Descriptors: Dementia, Search Strategies, Citations (References), Research Reports
Wanner, Amanda; Baumann, Niki – Research Synthesis Methods, 2019
Background: Both PubMed and Ovid MEDLINE contain records from the MEDLINE database. However, there are subtle differences in content, functionality, and search syntax between the two. There are many instances in which researchers may wish to search both interfaces, such as when conducting supplementary searching for a systematic review to retrieve…
Descriptors: Search Strategies, Databases, Medical Research, Medical Evaluation
Sutton, Anthea; Galvan De La Cruz, Maria Carmen; Leaviss, Joanna; Booth, Andrew – Research Synthesis Methods, 2018
Introduction: Registration and publication of trial protocols has become increasingly important and a requirement in some sources of funding and publication. Increased access to protocols yields many potential benefits, but there are issues regarding identification of published protocols. The aim of this investigation is to compare methods of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Medical Research, Research Methodology, Outcomes of Treatment
Biocic, Marina; Fidahic, Mahir; Cikes, Karla; Puljak, Livia – Research Synthesis Methods, 2019
Background: It has been reported that information sources searched in systematic reviews (SRs) are insufficiently comprehensive. We analyzed information sources used in SRs, as well as how up-to-date were the searches. Methods: We searched PubMed and the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR) through Wiley from 2012 to 2016 to find SRs of…
Descriptors: Pain, Case Studies, Anesthesiology, Databases
Langlois, Alexis; Nie, Jian-Yun; Thomas, James; Hong, Quan Nha; Pluye, Pierre – Research Synthesis Methods, 2018
Objective: Identify the most performant automated text classification method (eg, algorithm) for differentiating empirical studies from nonempirical works in order to facilitate systematic mixed studies reviews. Methods: The algorithms were trained and validated with 8050 database records, which had previously been manually categorized as…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Databases, Information Retrieval, Search Strategies
Mawdsley, David; Higgins, Julian P. T.; Sutton, Alex J.; Abrams, Keith R. – Research Synthesis Methods, 2017
In meta-analysis, the random-effects model is often used to account for heterogeneity. The model assumes that heterogeneity has an additive effect on the variance of effect sizes. An alternative model, which assumes multiplicative heterogeneity, has been little used in the medical statistics community, but is widely used by particle physicists. In…
Descriptors: Databases, Meta Analysis, Goodness of Fit, Effect Size
Anderson, Patricia F.; Shannon, Carol; Bickett, Skye; Doucette, Joanne; Herring, Pamela; Kepsel, Andrea; Lyons, Tierney; McLachlan, Scott; Wu, Lin – Research Synthesis Methods, 2018
When the Medical Library Association identified questions critical for the future of the profession, it assigned groups to use systematic reviews to find the answers to these questions. Group 6, whose question was on emerging technologies, recognized early on that the systematic review process would not work well for this question, which looks…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Medical Research, Medical Libraries
Waffenschmidt, Siw; Guddat, Charlotte – Research Synthesis Methods, 2015
Background: It is unclear which terms should be included in bibliographic searches for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of drugs, and identifying relevant drug terms can be extremely laborious. The aim of our analysis was to determine whether a bibliographic search using only the generic drug name produces sufficient results for the generation…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Drug Therapy, Outcomes of Treatment, Databases
