Meta-Analyses of Randomized Controlled Trials

The file drawer problem and tolerance for null results.

1979 • 7,706 citations

The Combination of Estimates from Different Experiments

1954 • 4,769 citations

Primary, Secondary, and Meta-Analysis of Research

1976 • 4,467 citations

Meta-analysis in social research

1982 • 3,988 citations

Beta blockade during and after myocardial infarction: An overview of the randomized trials

1985 • 3,248 citations

THE POWERFUL PLACEBO

1955 • 1,781 citations

Analysis of Variance

1987 • 1,465 citations

A method for assessing the quality of a randomized control trial

1981 • 1,370 citations

Combining results of independent studies.

1978 • 891 citations

Randomized versus historical controls for clinical trials

1982 • 833 citations

Reporting on Methods in Clinical Trials

1982 • 503 citations

Accumulating Evidence: Procedures for Resolving Contradictions among Different Research Studies

1971 • 425 citations

Differential Effects of Exercise on Serum Lipid and Lipoprotein Levels Seen With Changes in Body Weight

1985 • 245 citations

Perusing the literature: Comparison of MEDLINE searching with a perinatal trials database

1985 • 172 citations

Anticoagulants and Myocardial Infarction

1979 • 128 citations

Findings for Public Health From Meta-Analyses

1985 • 90 citations

Radiotherapy in the postoperative treatment of operable cancer of the breast.Part II. A re-examination of Stjernswärd's application of the mantel-haenszel statistical method. Evaluation of the effect of the radiation on immune response and suggestions for postoperative radiotherapy

1977 • 43 citations

Radiotherapy in the postoperative treatment of operable cancer of the breast.Part I. Critique of the clinical and biometric aspects of the trials

1977 • 31 citations