Anna Chaimani

26.1k total citations · 10 hit papers
94 papers, 17.1k citations indexed

About

Anna Chaimani is a scholar working on Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Pharmacology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Anna Chaimani has authored 94 papers receiving a total of 17.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, 17 papers in Pharmacology and 16 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Anna Chaimani's work include Meta-analysis and systematic reviews (46 papers), Mental Health Research Topics (16 papers) and Treatment of Major Depression (15 papers). Anna Chaimani is often cited by papers focused on Meta-analysis and systematic reviews (46 papers), Mental Health Research Topics (16 papers) and Treatment of Major Depression (15 papers). Anna Chaimani collaborates with scholars based in France, Greece and United Kingdom. Anna Chaimani's co-authors include Georgia Salanti, Julian P. T. Higgins, Deborah M Caldwell, John P. A. Ioannidis, Dimitris Mavridis, Panagiota Spyridonos, Christopher H. Schmid, Cinzia Del Giovane, Kristian Thorlund and Isabelle Boutron and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Annals of Internal Medicine and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Anna Chaimani

92 papers receiving 17.0k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The PRISMA Extension Statement for Reporting of Systematic Reviews Incorporating Network Meta-analyses of Health Care Interventions: Checklist and Explanations
    2015 5.7k citations Georgia Salanti, Anna Chaimani et al. profile →
  2. Comparative efficacy and acceptability of 21 antidepressant drugs for the acute treatment of adults with major depressive disorder: a systematic review and network meta-analysis
    2018 2.1k citations Andrea Cipriani, Toshi A. Furukawa et al. profile →
  3. Graphical Tools for Network Meta-Analysis in STATA
    2013 1.9k citations Anna Chaimani, Dimitris Mavridis et al. profile →
  4. Evaluating the Quality of Evidence from a Network Meta-Analysis
    2014 1.0k citations Georgia Salanti, Anna Chaimani et al. profile →
  5. CINeMA: An approach for assessing confidence in the results of a network meta-analysis
    2020 982 citations Adriani Nikolakopoulou, Anna Chaimani et al. profile →
  6. Network meta-analysis: an introduction for clinicians
    2016 546 citations Anna Chaimani, Tianjing Li et al. profile →
  7. Using network meta‐analysis to evaluate the existence of small‐study effects in a network of interventions
    2012 372 citations Anna Chaimani, Georgia Salanti Research Synthesis Methods profile →
  8. Sixty Years of Placebo-Controlled Antipsychotic Drug Trials in Acute Schizophrenia: Systematic Review, Bayesian Meta-Analysis, and Meta-Regression of Efficacy Predictors
    2017 350 citations Stefan Leucht, Anna Chaimani et al. profile →
  9. Systemic pharmacological treatments for chronic plaque psoriasis: a network meta-analysis
    2017 334 citations É. Sbidian, Anna Chaimani et al. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews profile →
  10. Challenges in meta-analyses with observational studies
    2020 194 citations Silvia Metelli, Anna Chaimani Evidence-Based Mental Health profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Anna Chaimani 2.5k 2.4k 2.3k 1.7k 1.6k 94 17.1k
Deborah M Caldwell 2.7k 1.1× 1.4k 0.6× 1.1k 0.5× 1.8k 1.1× 1.2k 0.7× 144 16.8k
Jill A. Hayden 2.4k 0.9× 2.5k 1.0× 4.9k 2.1× 1.3k 0.8× 938 0.6× 153 17.0k
Asbjørn Hróbjartsson 2.6k 1.0× 1.9k 0.8× 1.7k 0.7× 991 0.6× 1.5k 0.9× 138 17.4k
Joseph C. Cappelleri 1.9k 0.7× 5.7k 2.4× 1.8k 0.8× 1.4k 0.8× 2.4k 1.5× 496 17.5k
Kristian Thorlund 4.3k 1.7× 1.4k 0.6× 1.1k 0.5× 2.8k 1.6× 1.8k 1.1× 147 20.9k
Jeroen P. Jansen 2.1k 0.8× 813 0.3× 874 0.4× 1.7k 1.0× 1.4k 0.8× 146 12.1k
Willem JJ Assendelft 3.4k 1.3× 1.9k 0.8× 4.2k 1.8× 922 0.6× 1.4k 0.9× 307 15.8k
Mark Helfand 2.8k 1.1× 1.1k 0.4× 1.1k 0.5× 1.4k 0.8× 1.1k 0.7× 103 15.2k
Elda Dermyshi 4.3k 1.7× 1.3k 0.5× 906 0.4× 2.8k 1.7× 1.7k 1.0× 5 19.8k
Chongbing Yan 4.3k 1.7× 1.3k 0.5× 907 0.4× 2.8k 1.7× 1.7k 1.0× 11 19.8k

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All Works

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Davidson, Mauricia, et al.. (2025). Post-publication peer review and the identification of methodological and reporting issues in COVID-19 trials: a qualitative study. BMJ evidence-based medicine. 30(4). 233–240. 1 indexed citations
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Metelli, Silvia, Dimitris Mavridis, Perrine Créquit, & Anna Chaimani. (2023). Bayesian model-based outlier detection in network meta-analysis. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society). 186(4). 754–771. 1 indexed citations
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Evrenoglou, Theodoros, Isabelle Boutron, Georgios Seitidis, Lina Ghosn, & Anna Chaimani. (2023). metaCOVID: A web‐application for living meta‐analyses of COVID‐19 trials. Research Synthesis Methods. 14(3). 479–488. 3 indexed citations
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Sentenac, Mariane, E. Sabrina Twilhaar, Valérie Benhammou, et al.. (2023). Heterogeneity of design features in studies included in systematic reviews with meta‐analysis of cognitive outcomes in children born very preterm. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology. 37(3). 254–262. 4 indexed citations
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Evrenoglou, Theodoros, Ian R. White, Sivem Afach, Dimitris Mavridis, & Anna Chaimani. (2022). Network meta‐analysis of rare events using penalized likelihood regression. Statistics in Medicine. 41(26). 5203–5219. 14 indexed citations
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Charitakis, Emmanouil, Silvia Metelli, Lars Karlsson, et al.. (2022). Comparing efficacy and safety in catheter ablation strategies for atrial fibrillation: a network meta-analysis. BMC Medicine. 20(1). 193–193. 10 indexed citations
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Nikolin, Stevan, Anna Chaimani, Donel Martin, et al.. (2022). Comparative efficacy, cognitive effects and acceptability of electroconvulsive therapies for the treatment of depression: protocol for a systematic review and network meta-analysis. BMJ Open. 12(12). e068313–e068313. 7 indexed citations
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Sentenac, Mariane, Anna Chaimani, E. Sabrina Twilhaar, et al.. (2021). The challenges of heterogeneity in gestational age and birthweight inclusion criteria for research synthesis on very preterm birth and childhood cognition: An umbrella review and meta‐regression analysis. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology. 36(5). 717–725. 6 indexed citations
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Afach, Sivem, Anna Chaimani, Theodoros Evrenoglou, et al.. (2020). Meta‐analysis results do not reflect the real safety of biologics in psoriasis*. British Journal of Dermatology. 184(3). 415–424. 23 indexed citations
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Metelli, Silvia & Anna Chaimani. (2020). Challenges in meta-analyses with observational studies. Evidence-Based Mental Health. 23(2). 83–87. 194 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sbidian, É., Anna Chaimani, I. García‐Doval, et al.. (2020). Systemic pharmacological treatments for chronic plaque psoriasis: a network meta-analysis. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 1. CD011535–CD011535. 128 indexed citations
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Schwingshackl, Lukas, Anna Chaimani, Georg Hoffmann, Carolina Schwedhelm, & Heiner Boeing. (2017). Impact of different dietary approaches on blood pressure in hypertensive and prehypertensive patients: protocol for a systematic review and network meta-analysis. BMJ Open. 7(4). e014736–e014736. 16 indexed citations
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Zarin, Wasifa, Areti Angeliki Veroniki, Vera Nincic, et al.. (2017). Characteristics and knowledge synthesis approach for 456 network meta-analyses: a scoping review. BMC Medicine. 15(1). 3–3. 68 indexed citations
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Schwingshackl, Lukas, Anna Chaimani, Georg Hoffmann, Carolina Schwedhelm, & Heiner Boeing. (2017). Impact of different dietary approaches on glycemic control and cardiovascular risk factors in patients with type 2 diabetes: a protocol for a systematic review and network meta-analysis. Systematic Reviews. 6(1). 57–57. 18 indexed citations
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Furukawa, Toshi A., Georgia Salanti, Lauren Atkinson, et al.. (2016). Comparative efficacy and acceptability of first-generation and second-generation antidepressants in the acute treatment of major depression: protocol for a network meta-analysis. BMJ Open. 6(7). e010919–e010919. 149 indexed citations
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Desborough, Michael, Andreas V. Hadjinicolaou, Anna Chaimani, et al.. (2016). Alternative agents to prophylactic platelet transfusion for preventing bleeding in people with thrombocytopenia due to chronic bone marrow failure: a meta-analysis and systematic review. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2020(8). CD012055–CD012055. 19 indexed citations
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Chaimani, Anna, Haris S. Vasiliadis, Nikolaos Pandis, et al.. (2013). Effects of study precision and risk of bias in networks of interventions: a network meta-epidemiological study. International Journal of Epidemiology. 42(4). 1120–1131. 56 indexed citations

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