Thomas, James

Clarifying differences between reviews within evidence ecosystems

Gough, D., Thomas, J., & Oliver, S. (2019) · Systematic Reviews

Meta-analysis and systematic reviewsDelphi Technique in Research

Cited by 115

Still moving toward automation of the systematic review process: a summary of discussions at the third meeting of the International Collaboration for Automation of Systematic Reviews (ICASR)

O’Connor, A. M., Tsafnat, G., Gilbert, S. B., Thayer, K. A., Shemilt, I., Thomas, J., Glasziou, P., & Wolfe, M. S. (2019) · Systematic Reviews

Meta-analysis and systematic reviewsInformation Retrieval and Search Behavior

Cited by 110

Rapid evidence assessments of research to inform social policy: taking stock and moving forward

Thomas, J., Newman, M., & Oliver, S. (2013) · Evidence and Policy

Meta-analysis and systematic reviewsEvaluation and Performance Assessment

Cited by 109

The views of young children in the UK about obesity, body size, shape and weight: a systematic review

Rees, R., Oliver, K., Woodman, J., & Thomas, J. (2011) · BMC Public Health

Obesity and Health PracticesObesity, Physical Activity, Diet

Cited by 109

Data extraction methods for systematic review (semi)automation: a living systematic review

Schmidt, L., Olorisade, B. K., McGuinness, L. A., Thomas, J., & Higgins, J. P. T. (2021) · F1000Research

Meta-analysis and systematic reviewsComputational and Text Analysis Methods

Cited by 106

Resource use during systematic review production varies widely: a scoping review

Nussbaumer-Streit, B., Ellen, M., Klerings, I., Sfetcu, R., Riva, N., Mahmić-Kaknjo, M., Poulentzas, G., Martinez, P., Baladia, E., Ziganshina, L. E., et al. (2021) · Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Meta-analysis and systematic reviewsHealth Sciences Research and Education

Cited by 98

Rapid reviews may produce different results to systematic reviews: a meta-epidemiological study

Marshall, I. J., Marshall, R., Wallace, B. C., Brassey, J., & Thomas, J. (2019) · Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Meta-analysis and systematic reviewsDelphi Technique in Research

Cited by 95

Trialstreamer: A living, automatically updated database of clinical trial reports

Marshall, I. J., Nye, B., Kuiper, J., Noel-Storr, A., Marshall, R., Maclean, R., Soboczenski, F., Nenkova, A., Thomas, J., & Wallace, B. C. (2020) · Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Meta-analysis and systematic reviewsBiomedical Text Mining and Ontologies

Cited by 83

Mediating policy-relevant evidence at speed: are systematic reviews of systematic reviews a useful approach?

Caird, J., Sutcliffe, K., Kwan, I., Dickson, K., & Thomas, J. (2015) · Evidence & Policy

Meta-analysis and systematic reviewsEvaluation and Performance Assessment

Cited by 81

Comparing midwife-led and doctor-led maternity care: a systematic review of reviews

Sutcliffe, K., Caird, J., Kavanagh, J., Rees, R., Oliver, K., Dickson, K., Woodman, J., Barnett‐Paige, E., & Thomas, J. (2012) · Journal of Advanced Nursing

Maternal and Perinatal Health InterventionsMaternal and Neonatal Healthcare

Cited by 79

Representation of behaviour change interventions and their evaluation: Development of the Upper Level of the Behaviour Change Intervention Ontology

Michie, S., West, R., Finnerty, A. N., Norris, E., Wright, A. J., Marques, M. M., Johnston, M., Kelly, M. P., Thomas, J., & Hastings, J. (2020) · Wellcome Open Research

Behavioral Health and InterventionsSemantic Web and Ontologies

Cited by 76

Defensive Healthcare Practice: Systematic Review of Qualitative Evidence

Lorenc, T., Khouja, C., Harden, M., Fulbright, H., & Thomas, J. (2024) · BMJ Open

Medical Malpractice and Liability IssuesPatient Safety and Medication Errors

Cited by 48

‘It’s on your conscience all the time’: a systematic review of qualitative studies examining views on obesity among young people aged 12–18 years in the UK

Rees, R. W., Caird, J., Dickson, K., Vigurs, C., & Thomas, J. (2014) · BMJ Open

Obesity and Health PracticesObesity, Physical Activity, Diet

Cited by 46

The views of health guideline developers on the use of automation in health evidence synthesis

Arno, A., Elliott, J., Wallace, B., Turner, T., & Thomas, J. (2021) · Systematic Reviews

Clinical practice guidelines implementationMeta-analysis and systematic reviews

Cited by 40

Data extraction methods for systematic review (semi)automation: A living review protocol.

Schmidt, L., Olorisade, B. K., McGuinness, L. A., Thomas, J., & Higgins, J. P. T. (2020) · F1000Research

Meta-analysis and systematic reviewsComputational and Text Analysis Methods

Cited by 30

Data extraction methods for systematic review (semi)automation: Update of a living systematic review

Schmidt, L., Finnerty Mutlu, A. N., Elmore, R., Olorisade, B. K., Thomas, J., & Higgins, J. P. T. (2025) · F1000Research

Meta-analysis and systematic reviewsComputational and Text Analysis Methods

Cited by 27

Discriminating between empirical studies and nonempirical works using automated text classification

Langlois, A., Nie, J., Thomas, J., Hong, Q. N., & Pluye, P. (2018) · Research Synthesis Methods

Meta-analysis and systematic reviewsText and Document Classification Technologies

Cited by 26

Prospective approaches to accumulating evidence

Thomas, J., Askie, L. M., Berlin, J. A., Elliott, J. H., Ghersi, D., Simmonds, M., Takwoingi, Y., Tierney, J. F., & Higgins, J. P. (2019) · Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions

Meta-analysis and systematic reviewsClinical practice guidelines implementation

Cited by 26

Large language models, updates, and evaluation of automation tools for systematic reviews: a summary of significant discussions at the eighth meeting of the international collaboration for the automation of systematic reviews (ICASR)

O’Connor, A. M., Clark, J., Thomas, J., Spijker, R., Kusa, W., Walker, V. R., & Bond, M. (2024) · Systematic Reviews

Meta-analysis and systematic reviewsComputational and Text Analysis Methods

Cited by 21

Responsible use of AI in evidence SynthEsis (RAISE): recommendations and guidance

Thomas, J., Flemyng, E., & Noel-Storr, A. (2025) · OSF

Meta-analysis and systematic reviewsEthics and Social Impacts of AI

Cited by 14

Just how plain are plain tobacco packs: re-analysis of a systematic review using multilevel meta-analysis suggests lessons about the comparative benefits of synthesis methods

Melendez-Torres, G. J., Thomas, J., Lorenc, T., O’Mara-Eves, A., & Petticrew, M. (2018) · Systematic Reviews

Meta-analysis and systematic reviewsSmoking Behavior and Cessation

Cited by 12

Improving Active Learning in Systematic Reviews

Singh, G., Thomas, J., & Shawe-Taylor, J. (2018) · arXiv

Meta-analysis and systematic reviewsInformation Retrieval and Search Behavior

Cited by 11

A Neural Candidate-Selector Architecture for Automatic Structured Clinical Text Annotation.

Singh, G., Marshall, I. J., Thomas, J., Shawe-Taylor, J., & Wallace, B. C. (2017) · Proceedings of the 2017 ACM on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management

Biomedical Text Mining and OntologiesMachine Learning in Healthcare

Cited by 11

Protocol for a systematic review of the use of qualitative comparative analysis for evaluative questions in public health research

Hanckel, B., Petticrew, M., Thomas, J., & Green, J. (2019) · Systematic Reviews

Qualitative Comparative Analysis ResearchEvaluation and Performance Assessment

Cited by 10