Our team strives to disseminate the work of NYU Langone’s Meta-Research Collaborative through multiple sources. Below is a selection of highlighted publications within our research domains. For news about ongoing projects and new publications, please see our feed. For a more complete list of our team and collaborator’s meta-research academic publications, please see our bibliography.

Publications on Methods

Morgan T … Stevens ER. Using text messaging ecological momentary assessment to record changes in e-cigarettes and combustible cigarette use: pilot randomized clinical trial. JMIR Form Res. 2025. DOI.

Stevens ER … El Shahawy O. Evaluating strategies to recruit health researchers to participate in online survey research. BMC Med Res Methodol. 2024. DOI.

Laynor G and Stevens ER. Identifying meta-research with researchers as study subjects: protocol for a scoping review. Plos One. 2024. DOI.

Um S … Adhikari S. A Bayesian approach to estimate causal peer influence accounting for latent network homophily. 2024. arXiv preprint arXiv 2405.14789. DOI.

Um S and Adhikari S. Considerations in Bayesian agent-based modeling for the analysis of COVID-19 data. Stat Anal Data Min: ASA Data Sci J. 2024. DOI. 

Stevens ER … Sherman SE. Trial participants’ perceptions of the impact of ecological momentary assessment on smoking behaviors: qualitative analysis. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth. 2024. DOI.

Laynor G. Can systematic reviews be automated? J Electr Res Med Libr. 2022. DOI.

Sweet TM and Adhikari S. A hierarchical latent space network model for mediation. Network Science. 2022. DOI.

Publications on Incentives and Organization

Stevens ER and Laynor G. Enhancing the quality and efficiency of regulatory science literature reviews through innovation and collaboration with library and information science experts. Front Med. 2024. DOI.

Laynor G … Vardell E. Mapping the pathways to health sciences librarianship: reflections and future implications from an immersion session. J Med Libr Assoc. 2023. DOI.

Stevens ER and Laynor G. Recognizing the value of meta-research and making it easier to find. J Med Libr Assoc. 2023. DOI.

Laynor G. Will the pandemic change how researchers keep up with the literature? J Electr Res Med Libr. 2022. DOI. 

Stevens ER … Sherman SE. Using meta-research to foster diverse, equitable, and inclusive collaborative research networks. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2023. DOI. 

Laynor G and Roth S. Librarians as research partners for developing evidence synthesis protocols. In Forbes C (Ed), Academic libraries and collaborative research services, pp. 81-104. Rowman & Littlefield. 2022. ISBN: 978-1-5381-5368-0