Table S1.

Metrics used by the meta-analyses included in the study and their frequency in each of the 22 disciplines used for sampling

Metric	MA	GE	CS	CH	EN	MB	BB	MI	NB	PA	EE	IM	PT	CM	AG	PP	EB	SO	Total
Odds ratio	1	0	1	2	3	255	42	12	153	10	23	105	83	213	7	59	2	67	1,038
Risk ratio	0	0	0	0	0	14	21	15	42	10	29	39	59	173	30	26	1	40	499
Stand.mean.diff.	0	0	2	0	0	3	11	0	70	13	22	16	14	56	14	165	8	82	476
Correlation coefficient	0	1	6	0	1	0	3	0	16	23	12	2	1	10	2	95	39	42	253
Mean difference	0	0	0	0	0	3	17	0	27	7	4	11	18	80	27	7	1	16	218
Proportion	0	0	0	0	1	2	5	7	21	2	2	40	12	78	1	14	1	15	201
Hedges’ g	0	1	2	0	0	0	2	1	17	9	2	0	3	7	2	42	0	24	112
Hazard ratio	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	0	2	0	0	4	3	31	1	2	0	3	51
Prop.diff.	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	5	2	2	2	5	14	2	4	3	3	45
Fisher's Z	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	2	8	0	0	1	0	8	0	1	24
Simple mean	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	4	3	1	2	3	0	0	0	0	17
Other	0	0	0	1	1	2	4	0	11	7	17	7	10	9	6	8	11	14	108
Total	1	3	11	3	7	284	109	36	368	89	124	227	210	675	92	430	66	307	3,042

Abbreviations of column headings are defined in Methods in the main text. Stand.mean.diff, standardized mean difference; Prop.diff, proportion difference.