What is the most practical and user-friendly introductory book or article on the use of meta-analysis in social science research?

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Seyed Behzad Jazayeri

I'm not very specialized in the niche of social sciences but suggest reading Cochrane Handbook and watching Campbell Collaboration videos at YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/collaborationtube/videos

Mohammad Davoudi

Dear Jimmy Y. Zhong and Seyed Behzad Jazayeri

Thanks for your great help.

Akram Ramezanzadeh

Dear Dr. Davoudi,

The following books may also be helpful.

Meta-Analysis with R (2015)

Authors: Schwarzer, Guido, Carpenter, James R., Rücker, Gerta

Practical Meta-Analysis (2001)

Mark W. Lipsey -

David B. Wilson

And also Borenstein et al. (2009)

Cordially,

Dear Dr. Akram Ramezanzadeh

Thanks for your helpful and prompt reply.

Aramide Gbolahan

Selected articles may be used in your context but cochrane review seems better informative given its step by step approach to review of literature

https://www.google.co.uk/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=a2d4WePDM6Wn8wfAnrTwBg#q=meta+analysis+books

Dear Aramide Gbolahan

Thanks for your help.

You are very welcome Scholar!

Dennis Mazur

Please let me know if these are helpful to you:

1. Applied Meta-Analysis for Social Science Research - Guilford Press

https://www.guilford.com/books/Applied-Meta-Analysis-for-Social-Science-Research/Noel-Card/9781462525003

Offering pragmatic guidance for planning and conducting a meta-analytic review, this book is written in an engaging, nontechnical style that makes it ideal for ...

2. Viewing systematic reviews and meta-analysis in social research ...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4167883/Sep 10, 2014 ... Meta-analysis is especially useful for combining evidence to inform social policy, but meta-analyses of applied social science research may ...

Dennis

Nikolaos Pandis

This is also good to start with and it is free:

https://www.york.ac.uk/media/crd/Systematic_Reviews.pdf

Dear Nikolaos Pandis

Thanks for your interesting source.

Majid Elahi Shirvan

I will email you the books and papers on Meta-analysis.