This was a huge work that we just got published on trends and patterns in evidence synthesis within the field of Forestry and Forest-based Sector (F&FS) . The study investigates potential biases in evidence synthesized by examining different forms of synthesis (i.e. systematic and non-systematic), topics covered and geographical distribution of underpinning studies.
Reviewed topics are dominated by #ForestManagement, #Biodiversity and #ClimateChange, even though the field is sprawling away from core silviculture themes and into more transdisciplinary issues.
https://kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F%2Fauthors.elsevier.com%2Fsd%2Farticle%2FS1389-9341(25)00272-2/1/0102019bb8f33f70-22cdeb05-eff2-4afb-8f03-b9eb7a3813b3-000000/ERe2uC45FU6T7aRnqe4DgN9NIdQ=460
#bibliometrics #Forests #Forestry #ForestResearch #ForestBasedSector #EvidenceSynthesis
#AcademicChatter

#medlibs - an interesting proposal, and seeming more necessary as the complexity of AI tool details and uses in #evidencesynthesis work increases: Transparent Reporting of AI in Systematic Literature Reviews: Development of the PRISMA-trAIce Checklist. doi.org/10.2196/80247

Transparent Reporting of AI in...

Big news. I’ve started a new position as Principal Investigator at the University of Coimbra 🇵🇹

I'm joining the meta-research group led by @T_Weissgerber and the EXCELScIOR ERA Chair project (https://excelscior.uc.pt/) funded by the @EUCommission

I'm thrilled to join this historic university & continue my work on #MetaResearch #EvidenceSynthesis & #OpenScience

The new office, at the Palácio dos Grilos, could not be more iconic 👇

As interesting as the topic is, I'm really glad it's not up to me to fix this mess

https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjebm-2024-113391

#EvidenceSynthesis #ScholComm #EvidenceBased

Hi #EvidenceSynthesis folks, is anyone using RAT for describing/choosing/improving information sources or search strategies for #SystematicReview project?

Sünkler S, Lewandowski D, Schultheiß S, Yagci N. 2025. Result Assessment Tool (RAT): empowering search engine data analysis. PeerJ Computer Science 11:e2962 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.2962

For anyone who’s published systematic reviews, how often did you succeed in getting unpublished data by reaching out to authors? I don’t mean additional/IP data from published papers, but new data or data they could not get published. #evidencesynthesis

Hi #EvidenceSynthesis folks
Am I the first person to read the TERA-Tools terms of use before signing up? The links in the TOU refer to an acceptable use policy and a privacy policy, but the hyperlinks don't work and I can't find them elsewhere on the website.
These TOU are dated 2023.... I get that "no one reads terms and conditions" -- but I am surprised that *literally* no one seems to have read it.

#ESMARConf2025 is live now (https://www.youtube.com/@esmarconf), starting with a talk by @ASanchez_Tojar on "Practising what we preach: Rethinking standards in meta-analysis for ecology and evolution".

At 11am (CEST), I will give a talk on how to visualize the amount of heterogeneity in forest plots.

#MetaAnalysis #Rstats #EvidenceSynthesis #ResearchSynthesis

Hi folks, anyone else in the #RAISE webinar?
#EvidenceSynthesis

Hi #EvidenceSynthesis folks and #medlibs
You have about ten minutes to give feedback to the ESIC people

Link: https://qualtricsxm45bq73zl3.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_a4bGY6aWrCu8fMa

The Stage 3 reports are at https://evidencesynthesis.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ESE/pages/219217921/Stage+3+Reports

Since you don't have time to read them at this point, I will suggest some talking points:

1 The AI working group's suggestion of generic classifiers (to tag/retrieve/screen studies with a particular study design, population, setting, outcome, whatever) is one of the few ideas that are IMO both valuable and feasible

2 You can say that technical mechanisms will someday allow for an AI-led framework where human oversight is significantly reduced, yet evidence integrity remains uncompromised – but saying that doesn’t make people believe it.

3 Before we build https://xkcd.com/927/ in terms of literature databases, or ES data sharing standards, or ontologies -- let's reflect on the benefits of decentralization. Would the rest of the EBM world be worrying quite so much about US politics if not for the centrality of NCBI, NLM, PubMed, PMC, CDC, HICPAC, NIOSH, etc in global information networks?

Someone explain to me -- I thought the whole point of considering using LLMs for #EvidenceSynthesis screening was to process large datasets quickly.
But in this paper
Ghossein, J., Hryciw, B. N., Ramsay, T., & Kyeremanteng, K. (2025). The AI Reviewer: Evaluating AI’s Role in Citation Screening for Streamlined Systematic Reviews. JMIR Formative Research, 9(1), e58366. https://doi.org/10.2196/58366
They had a human-labeled dataset of 1186 citations, and they only tested their LLMs on 121 of them -- all of the included studies and 9% of the excluded ones.

This, but replace "writing code" with "writing sensitive and reproducible #EvidenceSynthesis searches"
And replace "a requirements document" with "a systematic review protocol"

What absolute perfect timing in light of the announcement that DOGE is cutting the size of ERIC significantly

Fitzgerald, S. R., Weaver, K. D., & Droog, A. (2025). Selecting a specialized education database for literature reviews and evidence synthesis projects. Research Synthesis Methods, 16(1), 30–41. https://doi.org/10.1017/rsm.2024.11

#EvidenceSynthesis #Education

1/3 In a recent paper, we described the use of location-scale models in meta-analysis to not only examine how moderators may be related to the size of the effect, but also how moderators may be related to the amount of heterogeneity among the effects: https://doi.org/10.1002/jrsm.1562

Such models can be fit with the metafor package in R: https://wviechtb.github.io/metafor/reference/rma.uni.html#location-scale-models

#statistics #MetaAnalysis #EvidenceSynthesis #ResearchSynthesis #Rstats

New paper out:
Rethlefsen et al (including me!) (2025). Improving peer review of systematic reviews and related review types by involving librarians and information specialists as methodological peer reviewers: a randomised controlled trial. BMJ evidence-based medicine, bmjebm-2024-113527. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjebm-2024-113527
#medlibs #PeerReview #EvidenceSynthesis

Can anyone explain to me the relationship between the "SHOW ME the evidence" paper published in JBI Evidence Implementation, Campbell Systematic Reviews, Clinical and Public Health Guidelines, Cochrane, and Environmental Evidence in November, and the "Evidence Synthesis Infrastructure Collaborative"?
#EvidenceSynthesis #SystematicReviews

#JobOpportunity at #VirginiaTech University #libraries. Join our growing #EvidenceSynthesis team as Evidence Synthesis Information Scientist. First review April 1. https://careers.pageuppeople.com/968/cw/en-us/job/532611/evidence-synthesis-information-scientist

The Evidence Synthesis and Meta-Analysis in R Conference (ESMARConf) is back! It will be held June 11th to the 13th, 2025.

https://esmarconf.org/2025/

Recordings of the talks and workshops from previous years can be found here: https://esmarconf.org/recordings/ (and directly on you YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@esmarconf).

#ESMARConf #MetaAnalysis #EvidenceSynthesis #RStats

Wow, PROSPERO look very different and it sounds like it is very different.
This is a great idea IMO
#EvidenceSynthesis #medlibs

And here it is: where you can request free access to Policy Commons to search for #GreyLit for an #EvidenceSynthesis project:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe8qQKZ6lvye6ZKD0wh0TInKOoBulPOynnxdcpo5qzsz1QIug/viewform