Introducing our series: research synthesis and meta-research in biology

Shinichi Nakagawa; Julia Koricheva; Malcolm Macleod; Wolfgang Viechtbauer

doi:10.1186/s12915-020-0755-0

Introducing our series: research synthesis and meta-research in biology

Shinichi Nakagawa^*, Julia Koricheva, Malcolm Macleod, Wolfgang Viechtbauer

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Abstract

Research synthesis is the process of bringing together findings and attributes from different publications, for example, to give a more complete description of phenomena than is usually possible in a single work. We bring the Research Synthesis Series to BMC Biology to promote meta-analyses, other research syntheses including meta-research studies, and research synthesis methodologies in biology, facilitating their dissemination to broader communities.

Original language	English
Article number	20
Number of pages	3
Journal	Bmc Biology
Volume	18
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-020-0755-0
Publication status	Published - 5 Mar 2020

Keywords

Evidence synthesis
Influence synthesis
Literature synthesis
Meta-synthesis
Systematic reviews

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