Preferred reporting items for systematic review and meta-analysis protocols (PRISMA-P) 2015: elaboration and explanation

L Shamseer, D Moher, M Clarke, D Ghersi, A Liberati… - Bmj, 2015 - bmj.com
Protocols of systematic reviews and meta-analyses allow for planning and documentation of
review methods, act as a guard against arbitrary decision making during review conduct …

Systematic approaches to a successful literature review

A Booth, MS James, M Clowes, A Sutton - 2021 - torrossa.com
Whether you are an undergraduate or postgraduate student, an established academic or a
professional practitioner, you will, no doubt, have had to write a 'literature review'at some …

Multispecies forest plantations outyield monocultures across a broad range of conditions

Y Feng, B Schmid, M Loreau, DI Forrester, S Fei, J Zhu… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Multispecies tree planting has long been applied in forestry and landscape restoration in the
hope of providing better timber production and ecosystem services; however, a systematic …

SPIRIT 2013 explanation and elaboration: guidance for protocols of clinical trials

AW Chan, JM Tetzlaff, PC Gøtzsche, DG Altman… - Bmj, 2013 - bmj.com
High quality protocols facilitate proper conduct, reporting, and external review of clinical
trials. However, the completeness of trial protocols is often inadequate. To help improve the …

Recommendations for examining and interpreting funnel plot asymmetry in meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials

JAC Sterne, AJ Sutton, JPA Ioannidis, N Terrin… - Bmj, 2011 - bmj.com
Funnel plots, and tests for funnel plot asymmetry, have been widely used to examine bias in
the results of meta-analyses. Funnel plot asymmetry should not be equated with publication …

[HTML][HTML] Dump the “dimorphism”: Comprehensive synthesis of human brain studies reveals few male-female differences beyond size

L Eliot, A Ahmed, H Khan, J Patel - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
With the explosion of neuroimaging, differences between male and female brains have been
exhaustively analyzed. Here we synthesize three decades of human MRI and postmortem …

Publication bias in the social sciences: Unlocking the file drawer

A Franco, N Malhotra, G Simonovits - Science, 2014 - science.org
We studied publication bias in the social sciences by analyzing a known population of
conducted studies—221 in total—in which there is a full accounting of what is published and …

Negative results are disappearing from most disciplines and countries

D Fanelli - Scientometrics, 2012 - akjournals.com
Concerns that the growing competition for funding and citations might distort science are
frequently discussed, but have not been verified directly. Of the hypothesized problems …

A call for transparent reporting to optimize the predictive value of preclinical research

SC Landis, SG Amara, K Asadullah, CP Austin… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Abstract The US National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke convened major
stakeholders in June 2012 to discuss how to improve the methodological reporting of animal …

Systematic review of the empirical evidence of study publication bias and outcome reporting bias—an updated review

K Dwan, C Gamble, PR Williamson, JJ Kirkham… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Background The increased use of meta-analysis in systematic reviews of healthcare
interventions has highlighted several types of bias that can arise during the completion of a …