Everything about META II

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: META IIA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: The prevalence and incidence of NAFLD worldwide: a systematic review and meta-analysisInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Das SchloßThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: The PRISMA StatementCited 59,922 times
5. Go sideways: Compiler-compilerA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: TREE-METAA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: The PRISMA Statement

  David Moher, Alessandro Liberati, Jennifer Tetzlaff · 2009 · PLoS Medicine · 59,922 citations

• Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses

  Julian P T Higgins, Simon G Thompson, Jonathan J Deeks · 2003 · BMJ · 54,257 citations

• Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test

  Matthias Egger, George Davey Smith, Martin Schneider · 1997 · BMJ · 50,267 citations

• Meta-analysis in clinical trials

  Rebecca DerSimonian, Nan Laird · 1986 · Controlled Clinical Trials · 34,502 citations

• Quantifying heterogeneity in a meta‐analysis

  Julian P. T. Higgins, Simon G. Thompson · 2002 · Statistics in Medicine · 32,971 citations

• Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: The PRISMA Statement

  David Moher, Alessandro Liberati, Jennifer Tetzlaff · 2009 · Annals of Internal Medicine · 23,753 citations

• Preferred reporting items for systematic review and meta-analysis protocols (PRISMA-P) 2015 statement

  PRISMA-P Group, David Moher, Larissa Shamseer · 2015 · Systematic Reviews · 21,727 citations

• Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: the PRISMA statement

  D. Moher, A. Liberati, J. Tetzlaff · 2009 · BMJ · 21,202 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• The prevalence and incidence of NAFLD worldwide: a systematic review and meta-analysis

  Kiarash Riazi, Hassan Azhari, Jacob H Charette · 2022 · The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology · 2,219 citations

• Dung beetle optimizer: a new meta-heuristic algorithm for global optimization

  Jiankai Xue, Bo Shen · 2022 · The Journal of Supercomputing · 1,754 citations

• Fatigue and cognitive impairment in Post-COVID-19 Syndrome: A systematic review and meta-analysis

  Felicia Ceban, Susan Ling, Leanna M.W. Lui · 2022 · Brain, Behavior, and Immunity · 1,444 citations

• Reptile Search Algorithm (RSA): A nature-inspired meta-heuristic optimizer

  Laith Abualigah, Mohamed Abd Elaziz, Putra Sumari · 2022 · Expert Systems with Applications · 1,394 citations

• Global Prevalence of Post-Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Condition or Long COVID: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review

  Chen Chen, Spencer R Haupert, Lauren Zimmermann · 2022 · The Journal of Infectious Diseases · 1,217 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Das SchloßFranz Kafka · 1926
• Shadows NumberlessAdam Fieled · 2005
• 📕TinguelyJean Tinguely · 1965
• World War II in Contemporary German and Dutch FictionJan Lensen · 2021
• Della letteratura italiana nella seconda metà del secolo XVIIICamillo Ugoni · 1856
• 📕General Liability Insurance CoverageJeffrey Stempel, Margo Meta · 2015
• 📕Dialogos meta tinos PersouManuel II Palaeologus Emperor of the East · 1993
• Entretiens avec un musulmanManuel II Palaeologus Emperor of the East · 1966

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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