• Augustine Wigle, Audrey Beliveau, Georgia Salanti, Gerta Rücker, Guido Schwarzer, Dimitris Mavridis, and Adriani Nikolakopoulou, "Precision of Treatment Hierarchy: A Metric for Quantifying Certainty in Treatment Hierarchies From Network Meta-Analysis", Statistics in Medicine, vol. 44, no. 13-14, 2025. Link
  • Antonia Zapf, Cornelia Frömke, Juliane Hardt, Gerta Rücker, Dina Voeltz, and Annika Hoyer, "Meta-Analysis of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies With Multiple Thresholds: Comparison of Approaches in a Simulation Study", Biometrical Journal, vol. 66, no. 7, Oct. 2024. Link
  • Gerta Rücker, Theodoros Papakonstantinou, Adriani Nikolakopoulou, Guido Schwarzer, Tobias Galla, and Annabel L. Davies, "Shortest path or random walks? A framework for path weights in network meta-analysis", Statistics in Medicine, July 23 2024. Link
  • Guido Schwarzer, Gerta Rücker, and Cristina Semaca, "LFK index does not reliably detect bias in meta-analysis: a simulation study", Research Synthesis Methods, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 603-615, 2024. Link
  • Maria Petropoulou, Gerta Rücker, Stephanie Weibel, Peter Kranke, and Guido Schwarzer, "Model selection for component network meta-analysis in connected and disconnected networks: a simulation study", BMC Medical Research Methodology, vol. 23, no. 1, June 14 2023. Link
  • Sara Balduzzi, Gerta Rücker, Adriani Nikolakopoulou, Theodoros Papakonstantinou, Georgia Salanti, Orestis Efthimiou, and Guido Schwarzer, "netmeta: An R Package for Network Meta-Analysis Using Frequentist Methods", Journal of Statistical Software, v106, n2, 2023, pp. 1-40. Link
  • Annabel L Davies, Theodoros Papakonstantinou, Adriani Nikolakopoulou, Gerta Rücker, and Tobias Galla, "Network meta-analysis and random walks", Statistics in Medicine, vol. 41, no. 12, pp. 2091-2114, 2022. Link
  • Areti Angeliki Veroniki, Sofia Tsokani, Ridhi Agarwal, Gerta Rücker, Dimitris Mavridis, and Yemisi Takwoingi, "Diagnostic test accuracy network meta-analysis methods: A scoping review and empirical assessment", Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, vol. 146, pp. 86-96, 2022. Link
  • Orestis Efthimiou, Michael Seo, Eirini Karyotaki, Pim Cuijpers, Toshi Furukawa, Guido Schwarzer, Gerta Rücker, and Dimitris Mavridis, "Bayesian models for aggregate and individual patient data component network meta-analysis", Statistics in Medicine, vol. 41, no. 14, pp. 2586-2601, 2022. Link
  • Theodoros Papakonstantinou, Georgia Salanti, Dimitris Mavridis, Gerta Rücker, Guido Schwarzer, and Adriani Nikolakopoulou, "Answering complex hierarchy questions in network meta-analysis", BMC Medical Research Methodology, vol. 22, 2022. Link
  • Gerta Rücker and Guido Schwarzer, "Beyond the forest plot: The drapery plot", Research Synthesis Methods, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 13-19, 2021. Link
  • Gerta Rücker, Susanne Schmitz, and Guido Schwarzer, "Component network meta-analysis compared to a matching method in a disconnected network: A case study ", Biometrical Journal, vol. 63, no. 2, pp. 447-461, 2021. Link
  • Antonia Zapf, Christian Albert, Cornelia Frömke, Michael Haase, Annika Hoyer, Hayley E. Jones, and Gerta Rücker, "Meta-analysis of diagnostic accuracy studies with multiple thresholds - comparison of different approaches", Biometrical Journal, vol. 63, no. 4, pp. 699-711, 2021. Link
  • Maria Petropoulou, Orestis Efthimiou, Gerta Rücker, Guido Schwarzer, Toshi A. Furukawa, Alessandro Pompoli, Huiberdina L. Koek, Cinzia Del Giovane, Nicolas Rodondi, and Dimitris Mavridis, "A Review of Methods for Addressing Components of Interventions in Meta-Analysis", PLOS ONE, vol. 16, no. 2, 2021.
  • Guido Schwarzer, Orestis Efthimiou, and Gerta Rücker, "Inconsistent Results for Peto Odds Ratios in Multi-Arm Studies, Network Meta-Analysis and Indirect Comparisons", Research Synthesis Methods, vol. 12, no. 6, pp. 849-854, 2021.
  • Areti Angeliki Veroniki, Sofia Tsokani, Ian R. White, Guido Schwarzer, Gerta Rücker, Dimitris Mavridis, Julian P. T. Higgins, and Georgia Salanti, "Prevalence of Evidence of Inconsistency and its Association with Network Structural Characteristics in 201 Published Networks of Interventions", BMC Medical Research Methodology, vol. 21, no. 1, 2021. Link
  • Ulrike Krahn, Harald Binder, Gerta Rücker, and Jochem König, "Comments on "Identifying inconsistency in network meta-analysis: Is the net heat plot a reliable method?", Statistics in Medicine, vol. 40, no. 18, pp. 4161-4163, 2021. Link
  • Anette Blümle, Katharina Wollmann, Karin Bischoff, Philipp Kapp, Szimonetta Lohner, Edris Nury, Kai Nitschke, Jasmin Zähringer, Gerta Rücker, and Martin Schumacher, "Investigator initiated trials versus industry sponsored trials - translation of randomized controlled trials into clinical practice (IMPACT) ", Bmc Medical Research Methodology, vol. 21, no. 1, 2021. Link
  • Maria Petropoulou, Georgia Salanti, Gerta Rücker, Guido Schwarzer, Irini Moustaki, and Dimitris Mavridis, "A Forward Search Algorithm for Detecting Extreme Study Effects in Network Meta-Analysis", Statistics in Medicine, vol. 40, no. 25, pp. 5642-5656, 2021.
  • Gerta Rücker, Maria Petropoulou, and Guido Schwarzer, "Network meta-analysis of multicomponent interventions.", Biometrical Journal, vol. 62, no. 3, pp. 808-821, 2020. Link
  • Gerta Rücker, Adriani Nikolakopoulou, Theodoros Papakonstantinou, Georgia Salanti, Richard D. Riley, and Guido Schwarzer, "The statistical importance of a study for a network meta-analysis estimate", BMC Medical Research Methodology, vol. 20, no. 1, 2020. Link
  • James R. Carpenter, Gerta Rücker, and Guido Schwarzer, "Discussion on 'Testing small study effects in multivariate meta-analysis' by Chuan Hong, Georgia Salanti, Sally Morton, Richard Riley, Haitao Chu, Stephen E Kimmel and Yong Chen", Biometrics, vol. 76, no. 4, pp. 1260-1261, 2020. Link
  • Martin Wolkewitz, Martin Schumacher, Gerta Rücker, Stephan Harbarth, and Jan Beyersmann, "Estimands to quantify prolonged hospital stay associated with nosocomial infections", BMC Medical Research Methodology, vol. 19, no. 1, May 2019. Link
  • Gerta Rücker, "This design is even more complex than it is accounted for in the protocol", BMJ Open, v9, n5, July 8 2019, online pages. Link
  • Orestis Efthimiou, Gerta Rücker, Guido Schwarzer, Julian P. T. Higgins, Matthias Egger, and Georgia Salanti, "Network meta-analysis of rare events using the Mantel-Haenszel method", Statistics in Medicine, vol. 38, no. 16, pp. 2992-3012, Jul 20 2019. Link
  • Orestis Efthimiou, Dimitris Mavridis, Adriani Nikolakopoulou, Gerta Rücker, Sven Trelle, Matthias Egger, and Georgia Salanti, "A model for meta-analysis of correlated binary outcomes: The case of split-body interventions", Statistical Methods in Medical Research, vol. 28, no. 7, pp. 1998-2014, 2019. Link
  • Guido Schwarzer, Hiam Chemaitelly, Laith J Abu-Raddad, and Gerta Rücker, "Seriously Misleading Results Using Inverse of Freeman-Tukey Double Arcsine Transformation in Meta-Analysis of Single Proportions", Research Synthesis Methods, vol. 10, pp. 476-483, 2019. Link
  • Sara Balduzzi, Gerta Rücker, and Guido Schwarzer, "How to perform a meta-analysis with R: a practical tutorial", Evidence-Based Mental Health, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 153-160, 2019. Link
  • Areti Angeliki Veroniki, Sharon E. Straus, Gerta Rücker, and Andrea C. Tricco, "Is providing uncertainty intervals in treatment ranking helpful in a network meta-analysis?", Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 2018. Link
  • Gerta Rücker and Guido Schwarzer, "Contribution to the discussion of 'When should meta-analysis avoid making hidden normality assumptions'", Biometrical Journal, 2018. Link
  • Theodoros Papakonstantinou, Adriani Nikolakopoulou, Gerta Rücker, Anna Chaimani, Guido Schwarzer, Matthias Egger, and Georgia Salanti, "Estimating the contribution of studies in network meta-analysis: paths, flows and streams", F1000Research, vol. 7, no. 610, 2018. Link
  • Gerta Rücker and Guido Schwarzer, "Differences in the placebo response between trials do not necessarily preclude network meta-analysis", Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, vol. 138, no. 6, pp. 615-615, 2018. Link
  • Dan Jackson, Martin Law, Gerta Rücker, and Guido Schwarzer, "The Hartung-Knapp modification for random-effects meta-analysis: A useful refinement but are there any residual concerns?", Statistics in Medicine, 26 July 2017.
  • Gerta Rücker, Christopher J. Cates, and Guido Schwarzer, "Methods for including information from multi-arm trials in pairwise meta-analysis", Research Synthesis Methods, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 392-403 , 2017.
  • Gerta Rücker and Guido Schwarzer, "Resolve conflicting rankings of outcomes in network meta-analysis: Partial ordering of treatments ", Research Synthesis Methods, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 526-536 , 2017.
  • Gerta Rücker and Guido Schwarzer, "Automated drawing of network plots in meta-analysis", Research Synthesis Methods, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 94-107, 2016. Link
  • Susanne Steinhauser, Martin Schumacher, and Gerta Rücker, "Modelling multiple thresholds in meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy studies", BMC Medical Research Methodology, vol. 16:97, 2016. Link
  • Gerta Rücker, "Network meta-analysis," in Wiley StatsRef: Statistics Reference Online, (Paolo Brandimarte, Marie Davidian, Brian Everitt, Geert Molenberghs, Walter Piegorsch, and Fabrizio Ruggeri, eds.), pp. 1-8, 2016. Link
  • Gerta Rücker and Guido Schwarzer, "Ranking treatments in frequentist network meta-analysis works without resampling methods", BMC Medical Research Methodology, vol. 15, 2015. Link
  • Guido Schwarzer, James R. Carpenter, and Gerta Rücker, Meta-Analysis with R, Springer International Publishing, 2015. Link
  • Gerta Rücker and Guido Schwarzer, "Presenting simulation results in a nested loop plot", BMC Medical Research Methodology, vol. 14, Dec 12 2014.
  • Martin Schumacher, Gerta Rücker, and Guido Schwarzer, "Meta-Analysis and the Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health", New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 370, no. 2, pp. 186-188, 1 2014.
  • Gerta Rücker and Guido Schwarzer, "Reduce dimension or reduce weights? Comparing two approaches to multi-arm studies in network meta-analysis", Statistics in Medicine, vol. 33, pp. 4353-4369, 2014.
  • Gerta Rücker, "Network meta-analysis, electrical networks and graph theory", Research Synthesis Methods, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 312-324, 2012.
  • Gerta Rücker, Tanja Schimek-Jasch, and Ursula Nestle, "Measuring inter-observer agreement in contour delineation of medical imaging in a dummy run using Fleiss' kappa", Methods of Information in Medicine, vol. 51, no. 6, pp. 489-494, 2012. Link
  • Gerta Rücker, Guido Schwarzer, James Carpenter, Harald Binder, and Martin Schumacher, "Treatment effect estimates adjusted for small-study effects via a limit meta-analysis", Biostatistics, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 122-142, July 22 2011.
  • Jonathan A. C. Sterne, Alex J. Sutton, John P. A. Ioannidis, Norma Terrin, David R. Jones, Joseph Lau, James Carpenter, Gerta Rücker, Roger M. Harbord, Christopher H. Schmid, Jennifer Tetzlaff, Jonathan J. Deeks, Jaime Peters, Petra Macaskill, Guido Schwarzer, Sue Duval, Douglas G. Altman, David Moher, and Julian P. T. Higgins, "Recommendations for examining and interpreting funnel plot asymmetry in meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials", British Medical Journal, vol. 343, July 22 2011. Link
  • Gerta Rücker, James Carpenter, and Guido Schwarzer, "Detecting and adjusting for small-study effects in meta-analysis", Biometrical Journal, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 351-368, 2011.
  • Gerta Rücker, Veronika Reiser, Edith Motschall, Harald Binder, Jörg J. Meerpohl, Gerd Antes, and Martin Schumacher, "Boosting qualifies capture-recapture methods for estimating comprehensiveness of literature search for systematic reviews", Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, vol. 64, pp. 1364-1372, 2011.
  • James Carpenter, Gerta Rücker, and Guido Schwarzer, "Assessing the sensitivity of meta-analysis to selection bias: a multiple imputation approach", Biometrics, vol. 67, no. 3, pp. 1066-1072, 2011. Link
  • Gerta Rücker and Martin Schumacher, "Summary ROC curve based on the weighted Youden index for selecting an optimal cutpoint in meta-analysis of diagnostic accuracy", Statistics in Medicine, vol. 29, pp. 3069-3078, 2010.
  • Gerta Rücker, Guido Schwarzer, James Carpenter, and Martin Schumacher, "`Natural weighting' - is it natural? Letter to the Editor", Statistics in Medicine, vol. 29, pp. 2963-2966, 2010.
  • Gerta Rücker, Erika Graf, and Martin Schumacher, "Letter to the editor concerning "Can Nonrandomized Experiments Yield Accurate Answers? A Randomized Experiment Comparing Random and Nonrandom Assignments'' by Shadish et al.", Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2010. Link
  • Gerta Rücker, Guido Schwarzer, James Carpenter, and Ingram Olkin, "Why add anything to nothing? The arcsine difference as a measure of treatment effect in meta-analysis with zero cells", Statistics in Medicine, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 721-738, 2009.
  • James R. Carpenter, Guido Schwarzer, Gerta Rücker, and Rita Künstler, "Empirical evaluation showed that the Copas selection model provided a useful summary in 80% of meta-analyses", Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, vol. 62, pp. 624-631, 2009.
  • Gerta Rücker and Martin Schumacher, "Simpson's paradox visualized: The example of the Rosiglitazone meta-analysis", BMC Medical Research Methodology, vol. 8, May 30 2008. Link
  • Gerta Rücker, Guido Schwarzer, James R. Carpenter, and Martin Schumacher, "Undue reliance on $I^2$ in assessing heterogeneity may mislead", BMC Medical Research Methodology, vol. 8, 2008. Link
  • Gerta Rücker, Guido Schwarzer, and James R. Carpenter, "Arcsine test for publication bias in meta-analyses with binary outcomes", Statistics in Medicine, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 746-763, 2008.
  • Gerta Rücker, "A Two-Stage Trial Design for Testing Treatment, Self-Selection, and Treatment Preference Effects", Statistics in Medicine, vol. 8, pp. 477-485, 1989.
  • Gerta Rücker and Dorle Messerer, "Remission Duration: An Example of Interval-Censored Observations", Statistics in Medicine, vol. 7, pp. 1139-1145, 1988.