Using collaboration networks to identify authorship dependence in meta‐analysis results

Meta‐analytic methods are powerful resources to summarize the existing evidence concerning a given research question and are widely used in many academic fields. Meta‐analyzes can also be used to study sources of heterogeneity and bias among results, which should be considered to avoid inaccuracies. Many of these sources can be related to study authorship, as both methodological heterogeneity and researcher bias may lead to deviations in results...