Research synthesis reviews: an illustrated critique of “hidden” judgments, choices, and compromises

Statistical power analysis for the behavioral sciences

1990 • 65,781 citations

A Coefficient of Agreement for Nominal Scales

1960 • 37,524 citations

Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Research

1963 • 15,071 citations

Quasi-Experimentation: Design & Analysis Issues for Field Settings

1979 • 11,624 citations

The file drawer problem and tolerance for null results.

1979 • 7,706 citations

Quasi-experimentation: Design and analysis issues for field settings

1980 • 5,759 citations

Primary, Secondary, and Meta-Analysis of Research

1976 • 4,467 citations

Meta-analysis in social research

1982 • 3,988 citations

The benefits of psychotherapy

1980 • 2,139 citations

Meta-analysis of psychotherapy outcome studies.

1977 • 2,133 citations

Experimental designs, 2nd ed.

1957 • 1,781 citations

A Fail-Safe N for Effect Size in Meta-Analysis

1983 • 1,682 citations

Summing up: The Science of Reviewing Research

1987 • 1,530 citations

Effects of cooperative, competitive, and individualistic goal structures on achievement: A meta-analysis.

1981 • 1,508 citations

The relation between socioeconomic status and academic achievement.

1982 • 1,502 citations

Meta-Analysis: Quantitative Methods for Research Synthesis

1987 • 1,383 citations

Psychotherapy outcome research: Methods for reporting variability and evaluating clinical significance

1984 • 1,292 citations

Meta-Analysis: Cumulating Research Findings across Studies

1984 • 1,215 citations

Evaluation studies : review annual

1976 • 1,122 citations

Estimation of effect size from a series of independent experiments.

1982 • 950 citations

A simple, general purpose display of magnitude of experimental effect.

1982 • 926 citations

Combining results of independent studies.

1978 • 891 citations

A simple, general purpose display of magnitude of experimental effect.

1982 • 885 citations

Statistical power analysis for the behavioral sciences

1978 • 883 citations

Randomized versus historical controls for clinical trials

1982 • 833 citations

9: Integrating Findings: The Meta-Analysis of Research

1977 • 803 citations

Meta-Analysis: Cumulating Research Findings across Studies

1986 • 788 citations

CONSIDERATIONS IN THE CHOICE OF INTEROBSERVER RELIABILITY ESTIMATES

1977 • 754 citations

Measures of response agreement for qualitative data: Some generalizations and alternatives.

1971 • 728 citations

External validity is more than skin deep: Some answers to criticisms of laboratory experiments.

1982 • 684 citations

Scientific Guidelines for Conducting Integrative Research Reviews

1982 • 677 citations

Randomized Clinical Trials

1976 • 539 citations

The Integrative Research Review: A Systematic Approach

1986 • 538 citations

Essentials of implosive therapy: A learning-theory-based psychodynamic behavioral therapy.

1967 • 510 citations

Critical dimensions in the choice and maintenance of successful treatments: Strength, integrity, and effectiveness.

1981 • 497 citations

Meta-Analysis of Research on Class Size and Achievement

1979 • 486 citations

Vote-counting methods in research synthesis.

1980 • 468 citations

Methods for Integrative Reviews

1980 • 461 citations

An exercise in mega-silliness.

1978 • 450 citations

Accumulating Evidence: Procedures for Resolving Contradictions among Different Research Studies

1971 • 425 citations

Critical dimensions in the choice and maintenance of successful treatments: Strength, integrity, and effectiveness.

1981 • 395 citations

The Effects of Psychological Therapy

1980 • 374 citations

A Survey of Clinical Trials of Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Colon Surgery: Evidence against Further Use of No-Treatment Controls

1981 • 345 citations

Comparing effect sizes of independent studies.

1982 • 340 citations

Effects of Ability Grouping on Secondary School Students: A Meta-Analysis of Evaluation Findings

1982 • 318 citations

Summing Up: The Science of Reviewing Research.

1985 • 282 citations

Reviewing the literature: A comparison of traditional methods with meta-analysis

1980 • 280 citations

Statistically combining independent studies: A meta-analysis of sex differences in conformity research.

1979 • 280 citations

Comparing effect sizes of independent studies.

1982 • 279 citations

Meta-Analysis: Quantitative Methods for Research Synthesis

1987 • 264 citations

Does professional training make a therapist more effective?

1985 • 221 citations

Publication bias and meta-analysis

1980 • 216 citations

Further meta-analytic procedures for assessing cognitive gender differences.

1982 • 202 citations

The efficacy of cognitive behavior therapies: A quantitative review of the research evidence.

1983 • 200 citations

Psychotherapy outcome: Smith and Glass' conclusions stand up under scrutiny.

1982 • 178 citations

Zung, Beck, and Hamilton Rating Scales as measures of treatment outcome: A meta-analytic comparison.

1986 • 170 citations

Psychotherapy outcome: Smith and Glass' conclusions stand up under scrutiny.

1982 • 168 citations

Zung, Beck, and Hamilton Rating Scales as measures of treatment outcome: A meta-analytic comparison.

1986 • 164 citations

Further meta-analytic procedures for assessing cognitive gender differences.

1982 • 163 citations

Meta-analysis of Research on Class Size and Its Relationship to Attitudes and Instruction

1980 • 161 citations

A meta-analytic investigation of Fiedler's contingency model of leadership effectiveness.

1981 • 158 citations

Assessing the statistical and social importance of the effects of psychotherapy.

1983 • 132 citations

Advances in statistical methods for meta‐analysis

1984 • 126 citations

Meta-analysis and the evaluation of psychotherapy outcome: Limitations and liabilities.

1983 • 123 citations

Evaluating the Effect of Coaching on SAT Scores: A Meta-Analysis

1983 • 116 citations

Synthesizing Outcomes: How to Use Research Evidence from Many Studies

1980 • 115 citations

An apology for research integration in the study of psychotherapy.

1983 • 114 citations

Meta-analysis: Techniques, applications, and functions.

1983 • 109 citations

Meta-analysis and the evaluation of psychotherapy outcome: Limitations and liabilities.

1983 • 103 citations

Effects of deficient reporting on meta-analysis: A conceptual framework and reanalysis.

1985 • 101 citations

Assessing the statistical and social importance of the effects of psychotherapy.

1983 • 100 citations

Overly broad categories obscure important differences between therapies.

1978 • 96 citations

Therapy outcome research methods.

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Numbers and Narrative: Combining Their Strengths in Research Reviews

1982 • 93 citations

On paradigms and recycled ideologies

1978 • 92 citations

Evaluation Research: A Methodological Perspective

1983 • 89 citations

A Review of the Theoretical Rationale and Empirical Support for the Extinction Approach of Implosive (Flooding) Therapy

1977 • 87 citations

Metaevaluation Research

1978 • 84 citations

Meta-analysis: A mixed meta-phor?

1978 • 81 citations

On the significance of effects and the effects of significance.

1981 • 79 citations

Meta-Analysis of Applied Time-Series Data

1984 • 78 citations

Meta-meta analysis: A new method for evaluating therapy outcome

1979 • 77 citations

A critical appraisal of meta‐analysis

1982 • 77 citations

Quantitative assessment of research domains

1980 • 74 citations

Meta-analysis of Comparative Therapy Outcome Research: a Critical Appraisal

1982 • 69 citations

Methodological issues in the meta‐analysis of quasi‐experiments

1984 • 32 citations

The Current Status of Flooding Therapy

1979 • 31 citations

A cautionary note on the use of omega squared to evaluate the effectiveness of behavioral treatments

1981 • 29 citations

Assessing the effectiveness of social programs: Methodological and conceptual issues

1981 • 25 citations

What differentiates meta-analysis from other forms of review1

1981 • 25 citations

Death knell for psychotherapy?

1979 • 23 citations

Meta-Analysis and Cross-Cultural Comparison

1981 • 22 citations

Six evaluation issues that synthesis can resolve better than single studies

1984 • 20 citations

Aggregating the idiographic data of single-subject research

1985 • 18 citations

Implosive therapy: Theory and technique

1975 • 16 citations

Synthesis methods: Some judgement calls that must be made

1980 • 13 citations

Research Integration: The State of the Art.

1980 • 12 citations

Separating ideology from currently available data: A reply to Cotton and Cook and McGlynn.

1982 • 12 citations

Death knell for psychotherapy?

1979 • 11 citations

Evaluation issues in medical research synthesis

1984 • 10 citations

Critique of Cooper's meta-analytic assessment of the findings on sex differences in conformity behavior.

1980 • 9 citations

Medical Technology Assessment

1985 • 8 citations

Utility of data synthesis for social work

1984 • 5 citations

Randomized Clinical Trials

2021 • 2 citations

Statistics and the Social Sciences

2021 • 1 citations