Understanding Research Synthesis (Meta-Analysis)

Research Synthesis in Software Engineering: A Case for Meta-Analysis

The use of meta-analytic techniques to summarize empirical software engineering research results is illustrated using a set of 5 published experiments from the literature. The intent of the analysis is to guide future work in this area through objective summarization of the literature to date. A focus on effect magnitude, in addition to statistical significance is championed, and the reader is ...

Evaluating meta-ethnography: systematic analysis and synthesis of qualitative research.

BACKGROUND Methods for reviewing and synthesising findings from quantitative research studies in health care are well established. Although there is recognition of the need for qualitative research to be brought into the evidence base, there is no consensus about how this should be done and the methods for synthesising qualitative research are at a relatively early stage of development. OBJEC...

Boundary-Spanning in NIOC’s research projects: Literature meta-synthesis and the direction of future research

The complex and ambiguous nature of innovative activities has forced organizations to think beyond their conventional boundaries. In this regard, inter-organizational projects are carried out with the aim of developing complex technological systems, changing organizational routines and developing capabilities. Designing and implementing inter-organizational projects creates many inter-organizat...

Ontological Meta-Analysis and Synthesis

We present ontological meta-analysis and synthesis as a method for reviewing, mapping, and visualizing the research literature in a domain cumulatively, logically, systematically, and systemically. The method highlights a domain’s bright spots that have been heavily studied, the light spots that have been lightly studied, the blind spots that have been overlooked, and the blank spots that have ...

Meta-Analysis of Massage Research