NIRO Systematic Review Non-Interventional, Reproducible and Open Systematic Reviews NIRO only exists thanks to the expertise and enthusiasm of numerous contributors.

Project leaders

Jade Pickering

University of Southampton, UK
University of Manchester, UK

Conceptualization – Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.

Data curation – Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later re-use.

Formal analysis – Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.

Investigation – Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection.

Methodology – Development or design of methodology; creation of models.

Project administration – Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution.

Visualization – Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/data presentation.

Writing – original draft – ​Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).

Writing – review – Critical review or commentary of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Writing – editing – Revision of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Miscellaneous – otherwise uncategorised contributions.

Marta Topor

University of Surrey, UK

Conceptualization – Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.

Data curation – Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later re-use.

Formal analysis – Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.

Investigation – Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection.

Methodology – Development or design of methodology; creation of models.

Project administration – Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution.

Supervision – Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team.

Visualization – Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/data presentation.

Writing – original draft – ​Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).

Writing – review – Critical review or commentary of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Writing – editing – Revision of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Miscellaneous – otherwise uncategorised contributions.

Contributors

Adam Parker

University of Oxford, UK

Data curation – Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later re-use.

Writing – review – Critical review or commentary of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Writing – editing – Revision of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Miscellaneous – otherwise uncategorised contributions.

Alison Lam

University of Liverpool, UK

Writing – review – Critical review or commentary of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Writing – editing – Revision of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Miscellaneous – otherwise uncategorised contributions.

Amy Riegelman

Writing – review – Critical review or commentary of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Writing – editing – Revision of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Miscellaneous – otherwise uncategorised contributions.

Ana Barbosa Mendes

KU Leuven, Belgium

Conceptualization – Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.

Data curation – Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later re-use.

Writing – original draft – ​Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).

Writing – review – Critical review or commentary of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Writing – editing – Revision of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Miscellaneous – otherwise uncategorised contributions.

Aoife O'Mahony

Cardiff University, UK

Data curation – Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later re-use.

Writing – review – Critical review or commentary of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Writing – editing – Revision of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Miscellaneous – otherwise uncategorised contributions.

Brad Hudson

University of Oxford, UK
University of Lancaster, UK

Data curation – Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later re-use.

Brenton Wiernik

TBC

Miscellaneous – otherwise uncategorised contributions.

Chris Hartgerink

Miscellaneous – otherwise uncategorised contributions.

Christopher R Madan

University of Nottingham, UK

Conceptualization – Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.

Data curation – Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later re-use.

Methodology – Development or design of methodology; creation of models.

Writing – review – Critical review or commentary of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Writing – editing – Revision of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Miscellaneous – otherwise uncategorised contributions.

David Moreau

University of Auckland, NZ

Conceptualization – Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.

Writing – original draft – ​Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).

Writing – review – Critical review or commentary of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Writing – editing – Revision of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Dorothy Bishop

University of Oxford, UK

Conceptualization – Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.

Writing – original draft – ​Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).

Writing – review – Critical review or commentary of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Writing – editing – Revision of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Miscellaneous – otherwise uncategorised contributions.

Emily J Kothe

Deakin University, Australia

Conceptualization – Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.

Data curation – Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later re-use.

Formal analysis – Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.

Investigation – Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection.

Methodology – Development or design of methodology; creation of models.

Writing – review – Critical review or commentary of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Writing – editing – Revision of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Emma L Henderson

Kingston University, UK

Conceptualization – Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.

Data curation – Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later re-use.

Methodology – Development or design of methodology; creation of models.

Writing – review – Critical review or commentary of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Writing – editing – Revision of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Miscellaneous – otherwise uncategorised contributions.

Esther Maassen

TBC

Miscellaneous – otherwise uncategorised contributions.

Faye Nitschke

University of Queensland, Australia

Conceptualization – Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.

Methodology – Development or design of methodology; creation of models.

Writing – original draft – ​Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).

Writing – review – Critical review or commentary of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Writing – editing – Revision of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Miscellaneous – otherwise uncategorised contributions.

Fionn Büttner

University College Dublin, Ireland

Conceptualization – Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.

Methodology – Development or design of methodology; creation of models.

Writing – original draft – ​Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).

Writing – review – Critical review or commentary of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Writing – editing – Revision of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Miscellaneous – otherwise uncategorised contributions.

Jade Pickering

University of Southampton, UK
University of Manchester, UK

Conceptualization – Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.

Data curation – Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later re-use.

Formal analysis – Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.

Investigation – Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection.

Methodology – Development or design of methodology; creation of models.

Project administration – Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution.

Visualization – Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/data presentation.

Writing – original draft – ​Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).

Writing – review – Critical review or commentary of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Writing – editing – Revision of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Miscellaneous – otherwise uncategorised contributions.

James Montilla Doble

University of the Philippines Diliman

Miscellaneous – otherwise uncategorised contributions.

Janneke Staaks

University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Conceptualization – Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.

Data curation – Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later re-use.

Methodology – Development or design of methodology; creation of models.

Project administration – Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution.

Writing – original draft – ​Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).

Writing – review – Critical review or commentary of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Writing – editing – Revision of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Johannes Fendel

TBC

Miscellaneous – otherwise uncategorised contributions.

Katie Corker

Grand Valley State University, Michigan, US

Conceptualization – Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.

Mahmoud Elsherif

University of Birmingham, UK

Writing – original draft – ​Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).

Writing – review – Critical review or commentary of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Writing – editing – Revision of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Miscellaneous – otherwise uncategorised contributions.

Marissa McBride

Imperial College London

Data curation – Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later re-use.

Miscellaneous – otherwise uncategorised contributions.

Marta Majewska

University of Manchester, UK

Visualization – Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/data presentation.

Writing – review – Critical review or commentary of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Writing – editing – Revision of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Marta Topor

University of Surrey, UK

Conceptualization – Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.

Data curation – Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later re-use.

Formal analysis – Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.

Investigation – Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection.

Methodology – Development or design of methodology; creation of models.

Project administration – Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution.

Supervision – Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team.

Visualization – Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/data presentation.

Writing – original draft – ​Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).

Writing – review – Critical review or commentary of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Writing – editing – Revision of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Miscellaneous – otherwise uncategorised contributions.

Matt Jaquiery

University of Oxford, UK

Software – Programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation of the computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components.

Validation – Verification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, of the overall replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs.

Visualization – Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/data presentation.

Writing – review – Critical review or commentary of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Writing – editing – Revision of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Miscellaneous – otherwise uncategorised contributions.

Meghan Testerman

Princeton University, NJ, USA

Conceptualization – Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.

Methodology – Development or design of methodology; creation of models.

Project administration – Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution.

Writing – original draft – ​Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).

Writing – review – Critical review or commentary of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Writing – editing – Revision of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Miscellaneous – otherwise uncategorised contributions.

Melissa Gibbs

Lancaster University, UK

Data curation – Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later re-use.

Michael Ingre

TBC

Miscellaneous – otherwise uncategorised contributions.

Mirela Zaneva

University of Oxford, UK

Conceptualization – Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.

Data curation – Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later re-use.

Writing – original draft – ​Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).

Writing – review – Critical review or commentary of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Writing – editing – Revision of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Miscellaneous – otherwise uncategorised contributions.

Nicola McGuire

University of Glasgow, UK

Data curation – Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later re-use.

Oliver Clark

Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Miscellaneous – otherwise uncategorised contributions.

Olivia Kirtley

TBC

Miscellaneous – otherwise uncategorised contributions.

Olmo van den Akker

Tilburg University, The Netherlands

Conceptualization – Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.

Writing – original draft – ​Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).

Writing – review – Critical review or commentary of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Writing – editing – Revision of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Miscellaneous – otherwise uncategorised contributions.

Ricarda Proppert

TBC

Miscellaneous – otherwise uncategorised contributions.

Sam Westwood

University of Wolverhampton, UK
King's College London, UK

Conceptualization – Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.

Writing – original draft – ​Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).

Writing – review – Critical review or commentary of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Writing – editing – Revision of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Miscellaneous – otherwise uncategorised contributions.

Simon Kohl

TBC

Miscellaneous – otherwise uncategorised contributions.

Siu Kit Yeung

The University of Hong Kong, HK

Writing – original draft – ​Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).

Writing – review – Critical review or commentary of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Writing – editing – Revision of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Tamara Kalandadze

Østfold University College, Norway

Conceptualization – Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.

Data curation – Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later re-use.

Writing – original draft – ​Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).

Writing – review – Critical review or commentary of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Writing – editing – Revision of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Miscellaneous – otherwise uncategorised contributions.

Thomas Rhys Evans

University of Greenwich, UK

Data curation – Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later re-use.

Writing – original draft – ​Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).

Writing – review – Critical review or commentary of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Writing – editing – Revision of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Yazhi Liu

Lancaster University, UK

Data curation – Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later re-use.