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Table 1 Articles screened and retrieved in the replication of ten published meta-analyses

From: Novel citation-based search method for scientific literature: application to meta-analyses

 

Original meta-analysis

All co-citations

All co-cited >1

Frequently co-cited

First author

Articles screened

Studies included

Articles screened

Studies retrieved

Articles screened

Studies retrieved

Articles screened

Studies retrieved

Boothe [27]

17,500

8

5,595

(32)

8

(100)

913

(5)

8

(100)

109

(1)

8

(100)

Frolkis [16]

9,151

12

967

(11)

10

(83)

224

(2)

7

(58)

108

(1)

6

(50)

Oliver-Williams [28]

8,646

10

588

(7)

8

(80)

62

(1)

5

(50)

62

(1)

5

(50)

Knoll [17]

2,365

21

7,638

(323)

19

(90)

1,719

(73)

18

(86)

132

(6)

11

(52)

Stevanovic [29]

2,090

13

987

(47)

12

(92)

186

(9)

10

(77)

77

(4)

10

(77)

De Vries [30]

1,194

9

8,388

(703)

9

(100)

1,924

(161)

9

(100)

124

(10)

8

(89)

Crider [31]

1,154

5

1,006

(87)

5

(100)

120

(10)

5

(100)

120

(10)

5

(100)

Herretes [32]

898

4

670

(75)

3

(75)

111

(12)

3

(75)

111

(12)

3

(75)

Gharaibeh [33]

836

27

880

(105)

26

(96)

173

(21)

21

(78)

116

(14)

19

(70)

Gu [34]

784

6

3,234

(413)

6

(100)

780

(99)

6

(100)

129

(16)

5

(83)

Median

1,642

10

997

(81)

9

(94)

205

(11)

8

(82)

110

(8)

7

(76)

  1. Percentages are shown in parentheses; values greater than 100 indicate that more articles were selected for screening than in the original meta-analysis. “Frequently co-cited” refers to citations above a threshold in the ranked list that was chosen such that 100–150 articles needed to be screened (See Methods; Additional file 1: Figure S2)