Sonia Lee

Have you considered using meta-analysis software? I2 is automatically calculated in Revman (free program) and makes forest plots, quality assessment tables & figures: http://tec...

Just for interest, Nigeria along with a few African countries have established Ebola research centres many years prior to the recent outbreak. I visited a centre in 2004, and was s...

Without a doubt it beats Google search engines. I think it's good for preprints, thesis retrievals, and general non-indexed material. I tend to run bots and non-conventional method...

Sounds like a systematic review... good if there was more on measures of effects i.e. effects sizes, fixed vs random vs mixed fx models. Also why meta-analysis works well with RCTs...

I think if you're looking at attitudes and beliefs "grounded theory" tools (http://www.psych-it.com.au/Psychlopedia/article.asp?id=150) integrates theories and overall/common attit...

I'm not sure with other disciplines, but for medical content, it depends on the question. So structuring the research question you want to retrieve articles for in a PICO (Populati...

I think research design is just as important. There are programs in specific disciplines that can extract and simulate data from p-values alone if statistical methods are accuratel...

Cheers. Driving integrity in researchers by branding them good or evil based on citing data or not.. may not fare well. If top down then perhaps do with less trumpets and more prag...

I'm no expert at this, but I'm not seeing how a point of reference e.g a white background makes it statistically more valid and reliable. I think the focus on Thorstenson et al pap...