Introduction Authors of knowledge syntheses make many subjective decisions during their
review process. Those decisions, which are guided in part by author characteristics, can …

Purpose This bibliometric analysis maps the landscape of knowledge syntheses in medical
education. It provides scholars with a roadmap for understanding where the field has been …

An unprecedented rise in health professions education (HPE) research has led to increasing
attention and interest in knowledge syntheses. There are many different types of knowledge …

Over the last 20 years, the volume of publications on topics in health professions education
(HPE) has increased dramatically. To help the HPE community integrate some of these …

Introduction Knowledge syntheses in medical education are intended to promote the
translation to, and mobilization of, research knowledge into practice. Despite the effort …

Background: Patient and public involvement (PPI) in health research is an area of growing
interest. Several studies have examined the use and impact of PPI in knowledge syntheses …

Objectives The purpose of this article is to describe the volume and attributes of original
research available in PubMed on emerging knowledge synthesis methods (excluding …

Introduction Researchers and practitioners rely on literature reviews to synthesize large
bodies of knowledge. Many types of literature reviews have been developed, each targeting …

The body of medical education research has exploded in recent years. A push for a
communal effort among education researchers to answer the “big questions” and support …

This issue of Perspectives on Medical Education focuses on meta-research—the study of the
research process. In the call for papers, Maggio and colleagues identified a need to better …