I was saddened to hear one of the best information specialists, Gail Higgins, passed away. I was absolutely gutted by the news, and it took me time to settle and start writing. Our community lost a valuable and caring member. I won’t forget her kind-heartedness and professionalism. While I had…

Before you judge, I am not sure if the plural form is citation indices or citation indexes, so if you have studied English, Help! …

Search filters (Hedges) are search strategies that have somehow been tested or studied to be a good way of finding records relevant to a concept (i.e. an illness, an intervention, a study design, an age group, etc.). …

Not only might you have heard of this statement, but you have also experienced it. When something is lost, and you concentrate on finding it, it hides away, and you cannot find it. It is not found until you stop searching for it, and it will appear in front of…

Based on the Diffusion of innovations theory, I consider myself a late adopter of innovations. I read reviews before upgrading, and after hearing from my colleagues, I resisted for a year to upgrade to EndNote 20! …

This question has been asked with different wording: How many studies do I need for my systematic review? Zero. How many studies are enough for a meta-analysis? 2 or more (depends, read on). Can I publish a systematic review with no studies? Yes. These are interesting questions that my students…

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. Stephen Hawking Yesterday, a colleague approached me with a few questions. He also asked if I knew how to run meta-analyses. I said, yes, I know; however, I will speak to our statistician to see her…

Increasing Value and Reducing Waste during Systematic Reviews Sorry for keeping you a cold turkey for a few weeks! For those of you who asked, hell is a really busy place to be! Thank you for your great wishes to send me there. I knew you already knew about it…

I had this question asked so many times I'm fed up with my repetitive patchy answers. Today, I listened to Professor Severus Snape: "Control your emotions! Discipline your mind!" and I wrote this post to refer my students and colleagues to it. Briefly: PDF, DOI, XML, preprints, and clouds are…