Social Sciences

FieldTopics and research activity

Social Sciences is one of 26 top-level fields in the OpenAlex subject taxonomy. This atlas publishes 216 topics in it, covering 13,633 indexed works.

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What are the most-cited papers on Social Sciences?

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The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews

Matthew J. Page, Joanne E. McKenzie, Patrick M. Bossuyt, Isabelle Boutron, Tammy Hoffmann, Cynthia D. Mulrow, Larissa Shamseer, Jennifer Tetzlaff, Elie A. Akl, Sue Brennan, Roger Chou, Julie Glanville, Jeremy Grimshaw, Asbjørn Hróbjartsson, Manoj M. Lalu, Tianjing Li, Elizabeth Loder, Evan Mayo‐Wilson, Steve McDonald, Luke A. McGuinness, Lesley Stewart, James Thomas, Andrea C. Tricco, Vivian Welch, Penny Whiting, David Moher

BMJ. 2021100,010 CitationsOPEN ACCESS

Consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research (COREQ): a 32-item checklist for interviews and focus groups

Allison Tong, Peter Sainsbury, Jonathan C. Craig

S74917805. 200742,723 CitationsOPEN ACCESS

RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials

Jonathan A C Sterne, Jelena Savović, Matthew J. Page, Roy G. Elbers, Natalie Blencowe, Isabelle Boutron, Christopher J Cates, Hung‐Yuan Cheng, Mark Corbett, Sandra Eldridge, Jonathan Emberson, Miguel A. Hernán, Sally Hopewell, Asbjørn Hróbjartsson, Daniela R. Junqueira, Peter Jüni, Jamie J Kirkham, Toby J Lasserson, Tianjing Li, Alexandra McAleenan, Barnaby C Reeves, Sasha Shepperd, Ian Shrier, Lesley Stewart, Kate Tilling, Ian R. White, Penny Whiting, Julian P. T. Higgins

BMJ. 201931,918 CitationsOPEN ACCESS

Preferred reporting items for systematic review and meta-analysis protocols (PRISMA-P) 2015 statement

PRISMA-P Group, David Moher, Larissa Shamseer, Mike Clarke, Davina Ghersi, Alessandro Liberati, Mark Petticrew, Paul Shekelle, Lesley Stewart

Systematic Reviews. 201526,815 CitationsOPEN ACCESS

The Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) Statement: Guidelines for Reporting Observational Studies

Erik von Elm, Douglas G. Altman, Matthias Egger, Stuart Pocock, Peter C Gøtzsche, Jan P. Vandenbroucke, for the STROBE Initiative

PLoS Medicine. 200721,902 CitationsOPEN ACCESS