Webinar: Dr Julian Hirt & Dr Christian Appenzeller-Herzog - Guidance on terminology, application and reporting of citation searching: The TARCiS Statement

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Although citation searching is a prevalent search technique to identify relevant sources of evidence in systematic reviews, associated methodology and terminology has not been standardised for decades. The purpose of the webinar is to present the TARCiS statement that provides guidance on terminology, application, and reporting of citation searching (https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2023-078384). The webinar elaborates on the evidence base and potential benefit of citation searching in health-related evidence syntheses, an overview of citation searching methods, and a detailed presentation of the development and content of the TARCiS statement. The ten TARCiS recommendations on when and how to conduct and report citation searching are spotlighted. Finally, the presenters introduce the TARCiS research priorities and close the webinar with the presentation of a follow-up project on the development of a web-based tool to conduct citation and co-citation searching (https://osf.io/xutrn/).

Speakers:

Dr Julian Hirt is a research fellow at the University of Basel and University Hospital Basel and a lecturer at the Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences in St.Gallen where he is mainly working on evidence syntheses and meta-research in the field of neurology, dementia, and evidence-based healthcare. He co-developed the TARCiS statement and RefHunter, a platform for systematic literature search. He is a core team member of the Library of Guidance for Health Scientists (LIGHTS).

Dr Christian Appenzeller-Herzog is a medical information specialist at the University of Basel where he is consulting and authoring meta-research projects, conducting methods development, and teaching in the realm of evidence-based medicine since 2017. Prior to this, he worked and published as molecular biologist holding research positions in Basel, Zürich and Copenhagen, and as a science teacher in Basel.