Table.
Descriptive heterogeneity practices
| Category | Variable |
Cancer Research (n = 1) |
Clinical Cancer Research (n = 17) |
Journal of Clinical Oncology (n = 106) |
The Lancet Oncology (n = 58) |
Total (n = 182) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Types of heterogeneity plots reported | Forest plot | 1 | 5 | 46 | 24 | 76 (42%) |
| Forest plot, L'Abbé plot | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 (2%) | |
| Forest, L'Abbé, Galbraith plot | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 (0%) | |
| None | 0 | 10 | 59 | 34 | 103 (57%) | |
| Types of analyses reported | Subgroup analysis | 0 | 6 | 26 | 7 | 39 (21%) |
| Meta-regression | 0 | 2 | 11 | 4 | 17 (9%) | |
| Sensitivity analysis | 0 | 3 | 19 | 11 | 33 (18%) | |
| Choice of model reported | Both | 0 | 4 | 24 | 10 | 39 (21%) |
| Fixed | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 (4%) | |
| Random | 1 | 5 | 23 | 17 | 46 (25%) | |
| Mixed | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 (<1%) | |
| None | 0 | 6 | 54 | 28 | 88 (48%) |