By Dr Malgorzata Nakagawa-Lagisz

Journal articles

Martinig AR; Burk SLP; Drobniak SM; Perry I; Morrison K; Petersohn M; Pottier P; Nakagawa S; Pollo P; Ricolfi L; Williams C; Mizuno A; Chhen A; Tam J; Yang Y; de Jong J; Ceccacci A; Cuadros S; Lagisz M, 2026, 'Dragon Kill Points: applying a transparent working template to relieve authorship stress', BMC Biology, 24, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-026-02521-x

McKinnon RA; Lagisz M; Sridharan S; Westneat DF; Mathot KJ, 2026, 'Trade-offs in avian parental care: a review of theory and meta-analysis of brood size manipulations', Biological Reviews, 101, pp. 2337 - 2358, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/brv.70181

Nakagawa S; Mizuno A; Williams C; Lagisz M; O'Dea RE; Noble DWA; Senior AM; Lundgren E; Ortega S, 2026, 'A New Effect Size for Meta-Analysis of Magnitude: lnM', Ecology Letters, 29, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.70428

Pennington CR; Norris E; Skubera M; Ba Y; Moffat R; Amaral OB; Adamkovič M; Adıgüzel A; Almeida RA; Baldwin JR; Ballou N; Behrens LMP; Bertram MG; Bjerke IE; Blackwell SE; Bochynska A; De Boer MR; Buljan I; Canales-Aguirre CB; Carey H; Čavojová V; Cawthorn WP; Christ S; Cipora K; Conner A; Conte FP; Crepaldi D; Ellis DA; Errington TM; Farran EK; Feld GB; Freitag R; Gebauer P; Gunn S; Hartmann H; Hellon VC; Hofer G; Ihle M; Ikeda A; Jones A; Jorge VA; Kafula YA; Kalandadze T; Karhulahti VM; Kocalar HE; Lagisz M; Lanz M; Leiva FP; Liuzza MT; Martončik M; Matsui H; Montefinese M; Moreau D; Morgan DP; Nakagawa S; Niemeyer H; Nilsonne G; Penido C; Persson S; Piccardi ES; Rahal RM; Rajčáni J; Ridley B; Scandola M; Schönbrodt FD; Schumann S; Soltanlou M; Steele J; Stewart SLK; Thoré ESJ; Ursić L; Vianello M; Voikar V; Wu NC; Yamada Y; Yilmaz C; Yoshimura N; Zloteanu M; Žuljević MF; Munafo MR; Clark K, 2026, 'Awareness and use of open research practices: an international survey of researchers across disciplines', Royal Society Open Science, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.260462

Grant S; Corker KS; Mellor D; Stewart SLK; Mayo-Wilson E; Cashin AG; Lagisz M; Moher D; Umpierre D; Barbour V; Buck S; Collins GS; Hazlett HF; Hrynaszkiewicz I; Lee CJ; Parker TH; Rethlefsen ML; Toomey E; Nosek BA, 2026, 'TOP 2025: An update to the Transparency and Openness Promotion Guidelines', Research Integrity and Peer Review, 11, pp. 40, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41073-026-00223-0

Morrison K; Lagisz M; Liu M; Santana MS; Nakagawa S; Yang Y, 2026, 'Assessing the diversity, transparency and accessibility of PRISMA guideline extensions', Nature Mental Health, 4, pp. 1164 - 1174, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s44220-026-00664-y

Mizuno A; Pollo P; Lagisz M; Soma M; Nakagawa S, 2026, 'Biological and methodological pitfalls of meta-analyses in ecology and evolution: lessons from eyespot function studies', Animal Behaviour, 236, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123448

Pedler RL; Bansemer MS; Harris JO; Crino OL; Lagisz M, 2026, 'Dietary Supplements and Biological Performance in Abalone: A Systematic Evidence Map', Reviews in Aquaculture, 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/raq.70167

Morrison K; Ricolfi L; Yang Y; Mizuno A; Pollo P; Lagisz M; Nakagawa S, 2026, 'The impacts of organochlorine pesticides on adverse human health outcomes: A second-order synthesis of mean effects and heterogeneity', Journal of Hazardous Materials, 509, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2026.141794

Moles A; Bonduriansky R; Bonser S; Falster D; Nakagawa S; Andrew N; Lagisz M, 2026, 'A transparent universal credit system to incentivize peer review', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 123, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2506681123

Lagisz M, 2026, 'Publishing less won’t save the research system', Nature, 650, pp. 516, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-00419-w

Nakagawa S; Ortega S; Gazzea E; Lagisz M; Lenz A; Lundgren E; Mizuno A, 2026, 'Location–scale models in ecology and evolution: Heteroscedasticity in continuous, count and proportion data', Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 17, pp. 554 - 566, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.70203

Garratt M; Lagisz M; Staerk J; Neyt C; Stout MB; Isola JVV; Cowl VB; Driver-Ruiz N; Franklin AD; McDonald MM; Powell DM; Walker SL; Gaillard JM; Conde DA; Lemaître JF; Colchero F; Nakagawa S, 2026, 'Sterilization and contraception increase lifespan across vertebrates', Nature, 649, pp. 1264 - 1272, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09836-9

Nakagawa S; Westneat DF; Mizuno A; Araya-Ajoy YG; Class B; Dingemanse NJ; Dochtermann NA; Lagisz M; Laskowski KL; Pick JL; Réale D; Williams C; Wright J; Schielzeth H, 2026, 'Understanding different types of repeatability and intra-class correlation for an analysis of biological variation', Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 23, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2025.0545

Pottier P; Wu NC; Earhart ML; Lagisz M; Alter K; Angelakopoulos R; Chakraborty A; Cowan ZL; Killen SS; McCoy JCS; Guevara-Molina EC; Moyano M; Pettersen AK; Pettinau L; Ripley DM; Sun BJ; Vasudeva R; Ruthsatz K, 2026, 'Embryos are largely understudied in a representative sample of journals in conservation physiology', Conservation Physiology, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/conphys/coag006

Holcombe AO; Pedersen R; Lagisz M; Pollo P; Kovacs M; Hosseini M, 2026, 'Improving acknowledgments sections to better credit research contributors', Accountability in Research, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08989621.2026.2681050

Morrison K; Pottier P; Pollo P; Ricolfi L; Williams C; Yang Y; Beillouin D; Cardoso SJ; Ferreira V; Gallagher B; Gan JL; Hao G; Keikha M; Kozlowsky-Suzuki B; Kiran Kumara TM; Latterini F; Leverkus AB; Macartney EL; Manrique SM; Martinig AR; Mizuno A; Nanayakkara S; Ntzani E; Ouédraogo DY; Pursell E; Simpson Z; Sleight H; Woon KS; Xia Z; Ghannad M; Grames E; Hennessy EA; IntHout J; Moher D; O’Dea RE; Page MJ; Whaley P; Lagisz M; Nakagawa S, 2026, 'MATES: A tool for appraising the completeness with which a meta-analysis has been reported', Environment International, 207, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2025.109935

Pollo P; Drobniak SM; Haselimashhadi H; Lagisz M; Mizuno A; Wilson LAB; Noble DWA; Nakagawa S, 2026, 'New approaches to meta-analyze differences in skewness, kurtosis, and correlation', Plos Biology, 24, pp. 1 - 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003653

Pick JL; Allen BJ; Bachelot B; Bairos-Novak KR; Brand JA; Class B; Dallas T; D’amelio PB; Fenollosa E; Fernández-Juricic E; Gomes DGE; Grainger MJ; Guillemaud T; John C; Krasnow R; Lagisz M; Lequime S; Maynard DS; Nakagawa S; O’dea RE; Paquet M; Petitjean Q; Sánchez-Tójar A; Van Dis NE; Wilson LAB; Ivimey-Cook ER, 2026, 'The SORTEE guidelines for data and code quality control in ecology and evolutionary biology', Peer Community Journal, 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.24072/pcjournal.687

Lagisz M; Mizuno A; Morrison K; Pollo P; Ricolfi L; Yang Y; Nakagawa S, 2026, 'Using Elicit AI research assistant for data extraction in systematic reviews: A feasibility study across environmental and life sciences', Research Synthesis Methods, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/rsm.2026.10080

Scott AM; Barbrook J; Riccardi M; Zaccaria K; Pavlovic M; Thayer K; Tsaioun K; Lagisz M; Wright R; Hoffmann S; Collaboration E-BT, 2025, '‘Grey literature’ in systematic reviews and evidence syntheses on Environmental Health & Toxicology topics: a survey protocol', Evidence-Based Toxicology, 3, pp. 2548563, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2833373x.2025.2548563

Pavlovic MD; Lagisz M; Videira NB; Menon JML; Vist GE; Omeragic E; Morgan RL; Hoffmann S; Collaboration E-BT, 2025, 'Reporting quality of systematic review protocols in environmental and occupational toxicology: a meta-epidemiology study protocol', Evidence-Based Toxicology, 3, pp. 2480543, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2833373x.2025.2480543

Martin JM; Michelangeli M; Bertram MG; Blanchfield PJ; Brand JA; Brodin T; Brooks BW; Cerveny D; Fergusson KN; Lagisz M; Lovin LM; Ligocki IY; Nakagawa S; Ozeki S; Sandoval-Herrera N; Scarlett KR; Sundin J; Tan H; Thoré ESJ; Wong BBM; McCallum ES, 2025, 'Evidence of the impacts of pharmaceuticals on aquatic animal behaviour (EIPAAB): a systematic map and open access database', Environmental Evidence, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13750-025-00357-6

Nakagawa S; Armitage DW; Froese T; Yang Y; Lagisz M, 2025, 'Poor hypotheses and research waste in biology: learning from a theory crisis in psychology', BMC Biology, 23, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-025-02134-w

Mizuno A; Drobniak SM; Williams C; Lagisz M; Nakagawa S, 2025, 'Promoting the use of phylogenetic multinomial generalised mixed-effects model to understand the evolution of discrete traits', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 38, pp. 1699 - 1715, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jeb/voaf116

Ricolfi L; Yang Y; Pottier P; Morrison K; Williams C; Pollo P; Hesselson D; Neely GG; Taylor MD; Nakagawa S; Lagisz M, 2025, 'Unravelling the magnitude and drivers of PFAS trophic magnification: a meta-analysis', Nature Communications, 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-65746-4

Yang Y; Noble DWA; Spake R; Senior AM; Lagisz M; Nakagawa S, 2025, 'A pluralistic framework for measuring, interpreting and decomposing heterogeneity in meta-analysis', Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 16, pp. 2710 - 2725, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.70155

Whaley P; Alper B; Dehnbostel J; Alva-Diaz C; Antoniou S; Bognanni A; Bracchiglione J; Dalsbø TK; Grant S; Hunter J; Iorio A; Lagisz M; Lehmann H; Li S; Meerpohl J; Mokrane S; Monaco C; Neumann I; Pottie K; Sayfi S; Sekercioglu N; Singh J; Sousa-Pinto B; Tufte J; Vasanthan LT; Wang L; Xia J; Yao X; Schünemann H, 2025, 'GRADE concept paper 9: rationale and process for creating a GRADE Ontology', Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 187, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2025.111921

Morrison K; Yang Y; Williams C; Ricolfi L; Lagisz M; Nakagawa S, 2025, 'Mapping meta-analyses on organochlorine pesticides reveals low methodological quality', Nature Sustainability, 8, pp. 1270 - 1279, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41893-025-01634-5

Nakagawa S; Mizuno A; Williams C; Lagisz M; Yang Y; Drobniak SM, 2025, 'Quantifying macro-evolutionary patterns of trait mean and variance with phylogenetic location–scale models', Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 16, pp. 2585 - 2602, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.70160

Pollo P; Martinig AR; Mizuno A; Morrison K; Pottier P; Ricolfi L; Tam J; Williams C; Yang Y; Drobniak SM; Lagisz M; Nakagawa S, 2025, 'Harnessing meta-analyses’ insights in ecology and evolution research', Royal Society Open Science, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.250759

Mizuno A; Lagisz M; Pollo P; Guillette L; Soma M; Nakagawa S, 2025, 'Systematic mapping and bibliometric analysis of meta-analyses on animal cognition', Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 177, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2025.106342

Pollo P; Lagisz M; Macedo-Rego RC; Mizuno A; Yang Y; Nakagawa S, 2025, 'Synthesis of Nature's Extravaganza: An Augmented Meta-Meta-Analysis on (Putative) Sexual Signals', Ecology Letters, 28, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.70215

Morrison K; Melhado G; Bose APH; Eastment R; Lagisz M; Manera JL; Michelangeli M; Ozeki S; Wong BBM; Yang Y; Nakagawa S, 2025, 'The impacts of pesticide exposure on fish conspecific interactions: A systematic review and meta-analysis', Environmental Pollution, 376, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2025.126353

Pollo P; Lagisz M; Macedo-Rego RC; Mizuno A; Yang Y; Nakagawa S, 2025, 'Reliability of meta-analyses in ecology and evolution: (Mostly) good news from a case study on sexual signals', Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, 292, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.2782

Nakagawa S; Mizuno A; Morrison K; Ricolfi L; Williams C; Drobniak SM; Lagisz M; Yang Y, 2025, 'Location-Scale Meta-Analysis and Meta-Regression as a Tool to Capture Large-Scale Changes in Biological and Methodological Heterogeneity: A Spotlight on Heteroscedasticity', Global Change Biology, 31, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70204

Gould E; Fraser HS; Parker TH; Nakagawa S; Griffith SC; Vesk PA; Fidler F; Hamilton DG; Abbey-Lee RN; Abbott JK; Aguirre LA; Alcaraz C; Aloni I; Altschul D; Arekar K; Atkins JW; Atkinson J; Baker CM; Barrett M; Bell K; Bello SK; Beltrán I; Berauer BJ; Bertram MG; Billman PD; Blake CK; Blake S; Bliard L; Bonisoli-Alquati A; Bonnet T; Bordes CNM; Bose APH; Botterill-James T; Boyd MA; Boyle SA; Bradfer-Lawrence T; Bradham J; Brand JA; Brengdahl MI; Bulla M; Bussière L; Camerlenghi E; Campbell SE; Campos LLF; Caravaggi A; Cardoso P; Carroll CJW; Catanach TA; Chen X; Chik HYJ; Choy ES; Christie AP; Chuang A; Chunco AJ; Clark BL; Contina A; Covernton GA; Cox MP; Cressman KA; Crotti M; Crouch CD; D’Amelio PB; de Sousa AA; Döbert TF; Dobler R; Dobson AJ; Doherty TS; Drobniak SM; Duffy AG; Duncan AB; Dunn RP; Dunning J; Dutta T; Eberhart-Hertel L; Elmore JA; Elsherif MM; English HM; Ensminger DC; Ernst UR; Ferguson SM; Fernandez-Juricic E; Ferreira-Arruda T; Fieberg J; Finch EA; Fiorenza EA; Fisher DN; Fontaine A; Forstmeier W; Fourcade Y; Frank GS; Freund CA; Fuentes-Lillo E; Gandy SL; Gannon DG; García-Cervigón AI; Garretson AC; Ge X; Geary WL; Géron C; Gilles M; Nakagawa-Lagisz M; Schilling H; Pottier P, 2025, 'Same data, different analysts: variation in effect sizes due to analytical decisions in ecology and evolutionary biology', BMC Biology, 23, pp. 35 - 35, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-024-02101-x

Lagisz M; Bairos-Novak KR; Martinig AR; Bertram MG; Mizuno A; Shafiei Sabet S; Paquet M; Santana MS; Thoré ESJ; Trubanová N; Rutkowska J; Orr JA; Takola E; Yang Y; Pottier P; Gomes DGE; Chan YC; Xian Z; Akogwu CO; Drobniak SM; Nakagawa S, 2025, 'Priced out of belonging? Insufficient concessions on membership fees across international societies in ecology and evolution', Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, 292, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.1430

Noble DWA; Xirocostas ZA; Wu NC; Martinig AR; Almeida RA; Bairos-Novak KR; Balti H; Bertram MG; Bliard L; Brand JA; Byrne I; Chan YC; Clink DJ; Corbel Q; Correia RA; Crawford-Ash J; Culina A; D'bastiani E; Deme GG; De Souza Leite M; Dhellemmes F; Dimri S; Drobniak SM; Elsy AD; Everingham SE; Gascoigne SJL; Grainger MJ; Hossack GC; Hovstad KA; Ivimey-Cook ER; Jones ML; Kačergytė I; Küstner G; Leibold DC; Mair MM; Martin J; Mizuno A; Moodie IR; Moreau D; O'dea RE; Orr JA; Paquet M; Parajuli R; Pick JL; Pottier P; Purgar M; Recio P; Roche DG; Royauté R; Shafiei Sabet S; Segovia JMG; Silva I; Sánchez-Tójar A; Soares BE; Szabo B; Takola E; Thoré ESJ; Timilsina B; Van Dis NE; Verberk WCEP; Vriend SJG; Wild KH; Williams C; Yang Y; Nakagawa S; Lagisz M, 2025, 'The promise of community-driven preprints in ecology and evolution', Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, 292, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.1487

Lagisz M; Yang Y; Young S; Nakagawa S, 2025, 'A practical guide to evaluating sensitivity of literature search strings for systematic reviews using relative recall', Research Synthesis Methods, 16, pp. 1 - 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/rsm.2024.6

Yang Y; Lagisz M; Nakagawa S, 2025, 'Visualization toolkits for enriching meta-analyses through evidence maps, bibliometrics, and alternative impact metrics', Research Synthesis Methods, 16, pp. 15 - 29, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/rsm.2024.3

Yang Y; Liu M; Lagisz M; Nakagawa S, 2025, 'Catalysing mathematical, computing and statistical innovation towards applied sciences', NATURE REVIEWS ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, 2, pp. 222 - 224, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s44287-025-00154-w

Mizuno A; Lagisz M; Pollo P; Yang Y; Soma M; Nakagawa S, 2024, 'A systematic review and meta-analysis of eyespot anti-predator mechanisms', , 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/elife.96338.3

Pollo P; Lagisz M; Yang Y; Culina A; Nakagawa S, 2024, 'Synthesis of sexual selection: a systematic map of meta-analyses with bibliometric analysis', Biological Reviews, 99, pp. 2134 - 2175, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/brv.13117

Ho ML; Lagisz M; Nakagawa S; Perkins-Kirkpatrick S; Sawyers P; Page C; Leggat B; Gaston T; Hobday AJ; Richards Z; Ainsworth T, 2024, 'What is the evidence for the impact of ocean warming on subtropical and temperate corals and coral reefs? A systematic map', Environmental Evidence, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13750-024-00349-y

Williams C; Yang Y; Lagisz M; Morrison K; Ricolfi L; Warton DI; Nakagawa S, 2024, 'Transparent reporting items for simulation studies evaluating statistical methods: Foundations for reproducibility and reliability', Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 15, pp. 1926 - 1939, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14415

Johnson S; Waterman J; Hartley S; Cooke J; Ryalls J; Lagisz M; Nakagawa S, 2024, 'Plant Silicon Defences Suppress Herbivore Performance, but Mode of Feeding Is Key', Ecology Letters, 27, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.14519

Lagisz M; Westgate M; Kellie D; Nakagawa S, 2024, 'Going global by going local: Impacts and opportunities of geographically focused data integration', Bioscience, 74, pp. 640 - 651, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biae070

Yang Y; Lagisz M; Williams C; Noble DWA; Pan J; Nakagawa S, 2024, 'Robust point and variance estimation for meta-analyses with selective reporting and dependent effect sizes', Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 15, pp. 1593 - 1610, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14377

Ricolfi L; Vendl C; Bräunig J; Taylor MD; Hesselson D; Gregory Neely G; Lagisz M; Nakagawa S, 2024, 'A research synthesis of humans, animals, and environmental compartments exposed to PFAS: A systematic evidence map and bibliometric analysis of secondary literature', Environment International, 190, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2024.108860

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