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Agreement Between Mega-Trials and Smaller Trials: A Systematic Review and Meta-Research Analysis.

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Kastrati L   +9 more
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Meta-Research in Oncology

2018
Differently from systematic reviews and meta-analyses, “meta-research” attempts to summarize the methodological features of published or ongoing clinical trials, including aspects of their design, analysis, reporting, and interpretation. In this type of investigation, the unit of analysis is a publication. After the formulation of the primary question,
Everardo D. Saad, Rachel P. Riechelmann
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Meta-research in pharmacy: Time for a look in the mirror

Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy, 2021
The volume of the biomedical literature continues to expand at a substantial rate. The research literature surrounding pharmaceutical services is no different. Due in part to events in the recent past, researchers, consumers, funders, and policymakers have raised concerns about the credibility, transparency, and potential waste in the global research ...
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Meta‐research: The art of getting it wrong

Research Synthesis Methods, 2010
AbstractMeta‐analysis has major strengths, but sometimes it can often lead to wrong and misleading answers. In this SRSM presidential address, I discuss some case studies that exemplify these problems, including examples from meta‐analyses of both clinical trials and observational associations.
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Meta-research in Chinese logic

Frontiers of Philosophy in China, 2007
This paper discusses the topics, goals, values and methods of Chinese logic. It holds that the goal of the research in Chinese logic is to reveal its structure, content, rules, and essential character, as well as to reveal both similarities and differences between Chinese and foreign logic.
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Toward meta research on technology transfer

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 1992
Technology transfer (TT) literature has grown exponentially during the 25 years up to 1990. As in most emerging fields the literature is quite disjointed. It is especially so in TT because of the cross-disciplinary nature of the field. Although a number of taxonomies have been proposed most are by and for a specific discipline, e.g., economics or ...
L. Zhao, A. Reisman
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The importance of meta-research in dentistry

Evidence-Based Dentistry, 2023
Rafael Sarkis-Onofre   +3 more
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Meta-HCI: First Workshop on Meta-Research in HCI

Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is a rapidly evolving field. It has undergone many changes, and several current challenges deserve more attention from the community. Meta-research – the study of research practices – offers insights into how a field can refine its methodological frameworks, enhance rigor, and address its challenges.
Jonas Oppenlaender   +6 more
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Meta-Research Evidence for Evaluating Therapies

Philosophy of Science, 2018
AbstractThe new field of meta-research investigates industry bias, publication bias, contradictions between studies, and other trends in medical research. I argue that its findings should be used as meta-evidence for evaluating therapies. ‘Meta-evidence’ is evidence about the support that direct ‘first-order evidence’ provides the hypothesis.
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OM: Time for Meta Research

1993
The debate which raged during the 60’s, regarding differences between Operations Research and Systems Engineering, finally petered out to a standoff. However, the 80’s have recorded a much more profound debate - a great deal of questioning as to what has become of OR and as to where it is heading [1, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 22].
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