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Meta-analyses. So much meta, many analyses. I’ve done a few, two are under review, and two almost ready for submission. Red thread in this is the Comprehensive Meta-Analysis (CMA) meta-analysis software package. CMA has brought the practice of meta-analysis (or ‘an exercise in mega-silliness‘, as Eysenck called it) to a broader audience because of its … Read More “Robin looks for meta-analysis alternatives 1: JamoviMeta.” »
UPDATE AUGUST 2022: Back in 2015 or 2016 when I made this, there weren’t too many alternatives to RevMan for RoB assessment graphs. You can still use the Excel thing below, but I strongly advise you to use other, newer (and vastly better) methods like the {robvis} package in R. For more information and hands-on guidelines for … Read More “High-resolution Risk of Bias assessment graph… in Excel!” »
Nothing like an interview on eMental Health to make you feel important I’m still reeling from the festivities surrounding my H-index increase from 3 (“aggressively mediocre“) to 4 (“impressively flaccid but with mounting tumescence“)*. Best gift I got: a sad, weary stare from my colleagues. Yay! But back to eMental Health (booooo hisssss). Some while … Read More “eMental Health interview with VGCt [Dutch]” »
Update 2023: Mendeley has gone to way of Endnote and has evolved into an unusable piece of garbage, now fully owned by the greedy science parasites of Elsevier. Please don’t use it – use Zotero instead. Endnooooooooo!te. 100 out of 100 academics agree that working with Endnote is about as enjoyable as putting your genitals … Read More “Corrected JMIR citation style for Mendeley desktop” »
You know an academic field has come to full maturity when the null results come rolling in. But you really know an academic discipline has come to maturity when the first shady academic journals pop up. Enter “E-Health Telecommunication Systems and Networks” from Scientific Research Publishing (love their description “An Academic Publisher“!). An invitation mail mass-spam just popped … Read More “Academic journal recognition, not of a very savoury kind” »