ArticleRoyal Society open science2023
Meta-analyses in psychology often overestimate evidence for and size of effects.
Article in Royal Society open science, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- A systematic review and meta-analysis finds that psychological well-being predicts all-cause mortality independently of psychological ill-being.BMC public health · 2026Pooled it
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- Robust Bayesian multilevel meta-analysis: Adjusting for publication bias in the presence of dependent effect sizes.Behavior research methods · 2026Article
- How do social media use, gaming frequency, and internalizing symptoms predict each other over time in early-to-middle adolescence?Journal of public health (Oxford, England) · 2026Article
- Robust Bayesian Model Averaging Meta-Analysis of Menstrual Disorders in COVID-19 Survivors: A Methodological Meta-Analysis Study.Health science reports · 2025Article
- Reducing the biases of the conventional meta-analysis of correlations.Research synthesis methods · 2025Article
- Evaluating the Effectiveness of Cognitive Interventions for Healthy and Mild Cognitive Impairment Adults: A Comprehensive Umbrella Meta-Analysis.Journal of aging research · 2025Review
- Professional Responsibility of Psychologists in the Field of Mental Health in Spain.Actas espanolas de psiquiatria · 2024Article
- Neurodivergence, intersectionality, and eating disorders: a lived experience-led narrative review.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Review
- Obstetric Outcomes in Women on Lithium: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- Effect sizes and what to make of them.Nature human behaviour · 2024Article
- Publication bias impacts on effect size, statistical power, and magnitude (Type M) and sign (Type S) errors in ecology and evolutionary biology.BMC biology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Adjusting for publication bias is essential when drawing meta-analytic inferences. However, most methods that adjust for publication bias do not perform well across a range of research conditions, such as the degree of heterogeneity in effect sizes across studies. Sladekova
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