Research Synthesis Methods is a multidisciplinary peer reviewed journal devoted to the development and dissemination of methods for designing, conducting, analyzing, interpreting, reporting, and applying systematic research synthesis. It aims to facilitate the creation and exchange of knowledge about research synthesis methods that is of general interest or utility for the many fields and disciplines in which research synthesis is undertaken or used. Research synthesis is common in the health and social sciences and many of the methods explored in this journal will apply directly to these disciplines and to their practitioners. The journals aim is to cross-fertilize these fields as well as others so as to enrich the methods of research synthesis in all scientific disciplines.The journal''''''''''''''''s scope includes all aspects of research synthesis methods irrespective of discipline or area of application. Papers may address statistical methods, empirical research and simulations, literature retrieval and information science, data extraction, software, graphics and reporting of synthesis results, issues of study quality, reporting or other systematic biases, narrative analysis and synthesis of qualitative data, synthesis of individual participant data, use of synthesis for developing practice guidelines, integration with cost effectiveness or decision analysis, comparison and integration of methods across different disciplines, techniques for application in different environments, applications that illustrate a novel methodology, or other such broadly methodological topics pertinent to conducting or using research synthesis.Papers on topics in fields such as the health and social sciences are welcome if they can also demonstrate relevance to general research synthesis. Papers reporting the results of a particular research synthesis are also not appropriate unless the focus is exclusively on an innovative or instructive methodological feature.To promote widespread dissemination that will enhance methodological innovation and synthesis practice, the articles in this journal must be accessible to a broad and interdisciplinary audience. Papers should provide sufficient explanatory context for the issue addressed to make its significance apparent, avoid specialized jargon and references that are not defined or described for nonspecialists, and discuss the implications and utility for practice of any results or conclusions.ReadershipThe journal aims to facilitate the exchange of knowledge about research synthesis methods within and between the many fields and disciplines in which research synthesis is undertaken or used. The target readership is therefore practitioners, users or methodologists of synthesis of research in any scientific discipline in the natural and social sciences.Keywordsbiostatistics, meta-analysis, systematic reviews, research synthesis, technology assessment, epidemiology, evidence-based medicine, library science, evidence-based practice, evidence-based programs, diagnostic tests, clinical trials

《研究綜合方法》是一本多學科的同行評議期刊，致力于設計、實施、分析、解釋、報告和應用系統研究綜合方法的開發和傳播。它的目的是促進對進行或使用研究綜合的許多領域和學科具有普遍興趣或實用價值的研究綜合方法的知識的創造和交流。研究綜合在健康和社會科學中很常見，本雜志探索的許多方法將直接應用于這些學科及其從業者。這些期刊的目標是使這些領域和其他領域相互融合，從而豐富所有科學學科的研究綜合方法。該期刊的范圍包括研究綜合方法的所有方面，而不考慮學科或應用領域。論文可能地址統計方法,實證研究和模擬,文獻檢索和信息科學,數據提取,軟件,圖形和報告的綜合結果,研究質量問題,報告或其他系統的偏見,敘事定性數據的分析與綜合,綜合個人參與者的數據,使用合成發展實踐指南,與成本效益的集成或決策分析,跨不同學科的方法的比較和集成，不同環境中的應用技術，闡明新方法的應用程序，或其他與進行或使用研究綜合相關的廣泛的方法學主題。如果有關衛生和社會科學等領域的主題的論文也能證明與一般研究綜合相關，那么它們將受到歡迎。報告特定研究綜合結果的論文也不合適，除非其重點完全集中在創新或有指導意義的方法論特征上。為了促進將加強方法學創新和綜合實踐的廣泛傳播，本雜志的文章必須面向廣泛和跨學科的讀者。論文應提供充分的解釋上下文，使問題的重要性顯而易見，避免專業術語和參考文獻，沒有定義或描述的非專業人士，并討論任何結果或結論的含義和實用性的實踐。讀者該期刊旨在促進在進行或使用研究綜合的許多領域和學科內部和之間交流有關研究綜合方法的知識。因此，目標讀者是自然科學和社會科學中任何科學學科綜合研究的實踐者、使用者或方法學家。關鍵字生物統計學、meta分析、系統綜述、研究綜合、技術評價、流行病學、循證醫學、圖書館學、循證實踐、循證項目、診斷試驗、臨床試驗