Gregory Laynor

Gregory Laynor, PhD

Assistant Curator, Medical Library

Keywords
information science, evidence synthesis, systematic reviews, meta-research, health professions education
Summary

In my role as Systematic Review Librarian, I guide research teams in planning and conducting systematic reviews and other types of evidence synthesis. I specialize in developing comprehensive search strategies for published and unpublished evidence. I teach critical appraisal of systematic reviews for evidence-based medicine, including in the Foundational Clinical Skills course. In the Department of Population Health and Vilcek Institute for Graduate Biomedical Sciences, I teach the Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis course. 

My research is on research practices themselves (meta-research). Using bibliometrics, I measure the research impact of systematic reviews and identify characteristics of the most impactful systematic review publications. I investigate ways of improving both the rigor of systematic reviews and the efficiency of conducting them. A current focus of my research is on the implementation of large language models and other AI approaches in systematic reviews.

Academic office

1 Park Avenue,

3rd Floor, 3-321A

New York, NY 10016

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Librarian, Systematic Review

PhD from University of Washington

O'Hanlon, Robin; Laynor, Gregory

Journal of the Medical Library Association. 2019 Apr; 107(2):251-257

Esquenazi-Karonika, Shari; Mathews, Patenne D; Wood, Marion J; Mudumbi, Praveen M; Linton, Janelle; Briscoe, Jasmine; Seibert, Elle; Coombs, K; Laynor, Gregory; Katz, Stuart D; Chung, Alicia

BMC health services research. 2025 Jul 03; 25(1):919

Withall, Jennifer; Laynor, Gregory; Anglin, Carlita; M Millon, Emma; Bass, Benjamin; Alendy, Fariza; DeMarco, Kathleen; Zavotsky, Kathleen Evanovich

Worldviews on evidence-based nursing. 2025 Jun; 22(3):e70024

Kemp, Mackenzie; Rising, Kristin L; Laynor, Gregory; Miao, Jessica; Worster, Brooke; Chang, Anna Marie; Monick, Andrew J; Guth, Amanda; Esteves Camacho, Tracy; McIntosh, Kiana; Amadio, Grace; Shughart, Lindsey; Hsiao, TingAnn; Leader, Amy E

JAMIA open. 2025 Apr; 8(2):ooaf019

Ebrahimi, Pouya; Batlle, Juan Carlos; Ayati, Aryan; Maqsood, M Haisum; Long, Clarine; Tarabanis, Constantine; McGowan, Natalie; Liebers, David T; Laynor, Gregory; Hosseini, Kaveh; Heffron, Sean P

JAMA psychiatry. 2025 Mar 19;

Magro, Juliana; Plovnick, Caitlin; Laynor, Gregory; Nicholson, Joey

MedEdPORTAL : the journal of teaching and learning resources. 2025; 21:11496

McCready, Taylor M; Cohen, Ethan M; Laynor, Gregory; Chebli, Perla; Liang, Peter S; Renson, Audrey

PloS one. 2025 Apr; 20(4):e0322038

O'Mara, Matthew A; Emanuel, Peter G; Tabibzadeh, Aaron; Duve, Robert J; Galati, Jonathan S; Laynor, Gregory; Gross, Samantha; Gross, Seth A

Journal of clinical gastroenterology. 2024 Sep 01; 58(8):739-752