Since its initial release, NIRO has been used in a number of projects. You can see some examples of pre-registrations and full studies below.

Pre-registrations

• The role of orthographic neighbourhood effects in lateralised lexical decision: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
• Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR): A systematic review of empirical studies.
• Interactive brains: A systematic review and meta-analysis of methodological factors in hyperscanning studies in social contexts
• A Systematic Review of Fear Learning in Adolescence

Completed Thesis

• Folk conceptions of free will: A systematic review and narrative synthesis of psychological research

If you have pre-registered, pre-printed or published a project using NIRO-SR, do get in touch so we can add it to the list above!

The pre-print for NIRO-SR has now been uploaded to MetaArXiv!

Citation:

Topor, M., Pickering, J. S., Barbosa Mendes, A., Bishop, D. V. M., Büttner, F. C., Elsherif, M. M., … Westwood, S. J. (2020, December 14). An integrative framework for planning and conducting Non-Intervention, Reproducible, and Open Systematic Reviews (NIRO-SR). https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/8gu5z

The NIRO-SR v0.1.0 is ready and waiting on the OSF!

Head on over to take a look, and happy reviewing!

Extra details to follow :)

Systematic reviews are complicated. Ensuring that they are reproducible and open is even more complex, and it's easy to overlook things or to adopt a workflow which makes reproducibility and transparency difficult to achieve. Whilst there are many (brilliant!) existing guidelines for conducting systematic reviews, many of these focus on a particular type of research centred around interventions. The NIRO Systematic Review checklist aims to provide a comprehensive set of guidelines for non-interventional research to help bring the gold-standard of evidence synthesis to other areas of research.

NIRO is a work in progress, led by Marta Topor and Jade Pickering with an amazing bunch of collaborators. If you're interested in the project, get in touch with Marta or Jade (contact details on the contributors page).

This website will be updated in due course as we finalise the project!