Guido Schwarzer

30.3k total citations · 8 hit papers
169 papers, 19.7k citations indexed

About

Guido Schwarzer is a scholar working on Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Statistics and Probability and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Guido Schwarzer has authored 169 papers receiving a total of 19.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, 33 papers in Statistics and Probability and 18 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Guido Schwarzer's work include Meta-analysis and systematic reviews (57 papers), Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials (29 papers) and Mental Health Research Topics (12 papers). Guido Schwarzer is often cited by papers focused on Meta-analysis and systematic reviews (57 papers), Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials (29 papers) and Mental Health Research Topics (12 papers). Guido Schwarzer collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and United Kingdom. Guido Schwarzer's co-authors include Gerta Rücker, Sara Balduzzi, James R. Carpenter, Martin Schumacher, Julian P. T. Higgins, Judith Peters, Sue Duval, Petra Macaskill, Christopher H. Schmid and Jennifer Tetzlaff and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Blood and Gastroenterology.

In The Last Decade

Guido Schwarzer

159 papers receiving 19.4k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

Recommendations for examining and interpreting funnel plot asymmetry in meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials

2011 5.5k citations Jonathan A C Sterne, Alex J. Sutton et al. BMJ profile →
How to perform a meta-analysis with R: a practical tutorial

2019 3.7k citations Gerta Rücker, Guido Schwarzer et al. profile →
Ranking treatments in frequentist network meta-analysis works without resampling methods

2015 1.1k citations Gerta Rücker, Guido Schwarzer BMC Medical Research Methodology profile →
Undue reliance on I2 in assessing heterogeneity may mislead

2008 920 citations Gerta Rücker, Guido Schwarzer et al. BMC Medical Research Methodology profile →
Seriously misleading results using inverse of Freeman‐Tukey double arcsine transformation in meta‐analysis of single proportions

2019 415 citations Guido Schwarzer, Gerta Rücker et al. Research Synthesis Methods profile →
Effect of specialist palliative care services on quality of life in adults with advanced incurable illness in hospital, hospice, or community settings: systematic review and meta-analysis

2017 258 citations Jan Gaertner, Waldemar Siemens et al. profile →
netmeta: An R Package for Network Meta-Analysis Using Frequentist Methods

2023 213 citations Gerta Rücker, Adriani Nikolakopoulou et al. profile →
Mental burden and its risk and protective factors during the early phase of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: systematic review and meta-analyses

2021 158 citations Guido Schwarzer, Harald Binder et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Clinical and imaging features of haemochromatosis arthropathy: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis to inform the development of EULAR classification criteria 2025 ·Sandy Engelhardt, (unknown), Guido Schwarzer, Andreas Kerschbaumer, (unknown), (unknown), Pedro Machado, Patrick Kiely, Stephanie Finzel	0
2	Identifying Biomedical Entities for Datasets in Scientific Articles: 4-Step Cache-Augmented Generation Approach Using GPT-4o and PubTator 3.0 2025 ·JMIR Formative Research ·(unknown), Gita Benadi, (unknown), (unknown), Manuel Watter, Guido Schwarzer, Olaf Groß, Robert Zeiser, Harald Binder, Klaus Kaier	0
3	Quantitative assessment of inconsistency in meta-analysis using decision thresholds with two new indices 2025 ·Journal of Clinical Epidemiology ·Bernardo Sousa‐Pinto, Ignacio Neumann, Rafael José Vieira, Antonio Bognanni, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Clareece R. Nevill, Gianluca Baio, Paul Whaley, Guido Schwarzer, James Steele, Gavin Stewart, Holger J. Schünemann, Luís Filipe Azevedo	1
4	The association between sleep quality and telomere attrition: A systematic review and meta-analysis comprising 400,212 participants 2025 ·Sleep Medicine Reviews ·(unknown), Guido Schwarzer, (unknown), Werner Surbeck, Claas Lahmann, Kai Spiegelhalder, Lukas Frase, Derek Spieler	2
5	LFK index does not reliably detect small‐study effects in meta‐analysis: A simulation study 2024 ·Research Synthesis Methods ·Guido Schwarzer, Gerta Rücker, (unknown)	16
6	Update on PI-RADS Version 2.1 Diagnostic Performance Benchmarks for Prostate MRI: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis 2024 ·Radiology ·(unknown), (unknown), Hannes Engel, Christine Schmucker, Guido Schwarzer, (unknown), Ivo G. Schoots, Michel Eisenblaetter, August Sigle, Christian Gratzke, Fabian Bamberg, Matthias Benndorf	21
7	Evaluation of ‘implications for research’ statements in systematic reviews of interventions in advanced cancer patients – a meta-research study 2023 ·BMC Medical Research Methodology ·Waldemar Siemens, (unknown), (unknown), Anette Blümle, Gerhild Becker, Guido Schwarzer, Joerg J Meerpohl	1
8	Valve‐in‐Valve Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Versus Redo Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement for Failed Surgical Aortic Bioprostheses: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis 2022 ·Journal of the American Heart Association ·Matthias Raschpichler, Suzanne de Waha, David Holzhey, Guido Schwarzer, Nir Flint, Danon Kaewkes, (unknown), Danny Dvir, Raj Makkar, Gorav Ailawadi, Mohamed Abdel‐Wahab, Hölger Thiele, Michael A. Borger	20
9	Bayesian models for aggregate and individual patient data component network meta‐analysis 2022 ·Statistics in Medicine ·Orestis Efthimiou, Michael Seo, Eirini Karyotaki, Pim Cuijpers, Toshi A. Furukawa, Guido Schwarzer, Gerta Rücker, Dimitris Mavridis	10
10	Handbook of Meta‐Analysis (Eds: C. H.Schmid, T.Stijnen, I. R.White) 2021 ·Research Synthesis Methods ·Gerta Rücker, Guido Schwarzer, Terri Pigott	1
11	Subsequent full publication of qualitative studies presented at United Kingdom Royal College of Nursing Research Conference 2015 and 2016: A follow‐up study 2021 ·Research Synthesis Methods ·Ingrid Toews, (unknown), Julia Stadelmaier, Guido Schwarzer, Jane Noyes, Andrew Booth, Simon Lewin, Joerg J Meerpohl	0
12	Inconsistent results for Peto odds ratios in multi‐arm studies, network meta‐analysis and indirect comparisons 2021 ·Research Synthesis Methods ·Guido Schwarzer, Orestis Efthimiou, Gerta Rücker	1
13	Prevalence of evidence of inconsistency and its association with network structural characteristics in 201 published networks of interventions 2021 ·BMC Medical Research Methodology ·Areti Angeliki Veroniki, Sofia Tsokani, Ian R. White, Guido Schwarzer, Gerta Rücker, Dimitris Mavridis, Julian P. T. Higgins, Georgia Salanti	12
14	The statistical importance of a study for a network meta-analysis estimate 2020 ·BMC Medical Research Methodology ·Gerta Rücker, Adriani Nikolakopoulou, Theodoros Papakonstantinou, Georgia Salanti, Richard D Riley, Guido Schwarzer	10
15	Perspective: Network Meta-analysis Reaches Nutrition Research: Current Status, Scientific Concepts, and Future Directions 2019 ·Advances in Nutrition ·Lukas Schwingshackl, Guido Schwarzer, Gerta Rücker, Joerg J Meerpohl	23
16	Methods for evidence synthesis in the case of very few studies 2018 ·Research Synthesis Methods ·Ralf Bender, Tim Friede, Armin Koch, Oliver Kuß, Peter Schlattmann, Guido Schwarzer, Guido Skipka	154
17	Additional file 1: of Specialist palliative care services for adults with advanced, incurable illness in hospital, hospice, or community settingsâ protocol for a systematic review 2015 ·Figshare ·Jan Gaertner, Waldemar Siemens, Gerd Antes, Joerg J Meerpohl, Carola Xander, Guido Schwarzer, (unknown), Gerhild Becker	1
18	Automated drawing of network plots in network meta‐analysis 2015 ·Research Synthesis Methods ·Gerta Rücker, Guido Schwarzer	42
19	Recommendations for examining and interpreting funnel plot asymmetry in meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials breakdown → 2011 ·BMJ ·Jonathan A C Sterne, Alex J. Sutton, John P. A. Ioannidis, Norma Terrin, David R. Jones, J. Lau, James R. Carpenter, Gerta Rücker, Roger Harbord, Christopher H. Schmid, Jennifer Tetzlaff, Jonathan J Deeks, Judith Peters, Petra Macaskill, Guido Schwarzer, Sue Duval, Douglas G. Altman, David Moher, Julian P. T. Higgins	5544
20	HIGH DOSE CHEMOTHERAPY WITH AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL SUPPORT IN FIRST LINE TREATMENT OF AGGRESSIVE NON HODGKIN LYMPHOMA: RESULTS OF AN INDIVIDUAL PATIENT DATA META-ANALYSIS 2009 ·IRIS Research product catalog (Sapienza University of Rome) ·Corinne Brillant, Guido Schwarzer, Julia Bohlius, (unknown), Sven Trelle, Corinne Haïoun, André De Souza, Christian Gisselbrecht, Tanin Intragumtornchai, Ulrich Kaiser, (unknown), Maurizio Martelli, Nöel Milpied, (unknown), Umberto Vitolo, Andreas Engert, H. Schulz	1

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