Biography
Farhad is a part-time post-doctoral research associate at Palliative & End of Life Care Group in Cambridge (PELiCam), working on evidence synthesis projects, including the IMPCOM systematic review and a realist review, both funded by Marie Curie. Farhad is also the Evidence Synthesis Manager at the University of Oxford and a Senior Research Associate in Information Science at Bristol University.
Research
Evidence Synthesis, Systematic Reviews, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Systematic Searching
Publications
Shokraneh F. Stop searching and you will find it: Search-Resistant Concepts in systematic review searches. BMJ Evid Based Med. 2024 Aug 6:bmjebm-2023-112798. doi: 10.1136/bmjebm-2023-112798. PMID: 39107090.
Chalkidou A, Shokraneh F, Kijauskaite G, et al. Recommendations for the development and use of imaging test sets to investigate the test performance of artificial intelligence in health screening. Lancet Digit Health. 2022 Dec;4(12):e899-e905. doi: 10.1016/S2589-7500(22)00186-8. PMID: 36427951.
Shokraneh F, Adams CE. Classification of all pharmacological interventions tested in trials relevant to people with schizophrenia: A study-based analysis. Health Info Libr J. 2023 Jun;40(2):201-216. doi: 10.1111/hir.12366. PMID: 33615663.
Roberts MT, Shokraneh F, et al. Classification of psychotherapy interventions for people with schizophrenia: development of the Nottingham Classification of Psychotherapies. Evid Based Ment Health. 2021 May;24(2):62-69. doi: 10.1136/ebmental-2020-300151. PMID: 33355248; PMCID: PMC10231480.
Aali G, Shokraneh F. No limitations to language, date, publication type, and publication status in search step of systematic reviews. J Clin Epidemiol. 2021 May;133:165-167. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2021.02.002. PMID: 33571633.
Shokraneh F, Russell-Rose T. Lessons from COVID-19 to future evidence synthesis efforts: first living search strategy and out of date scientific publishing and indexing industry. J Clin Epidemiol. 2020 Jul;123:171-173. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2020.04.014. PMID: 32376119; PMCID: PMC7184009.
Shokraneh F. Keeping up with studies on COVID-19: systematic search strategies and resources. BMJ. 2020 Apr 23;369:m1601. doi: 10.1136/bmj.m1601. PMID: 32327431.
Shokraneh F, Adams CE. Study-based registers reduce waste in systematic reviewing: discussion and case report. Syst Rev. 2019 May 30;8(1):129. doi: 10.1186/s13643-019-1035-3. PMID: 31146776; PMCID: PMC6542007.
Shokraneh F. Reducing waste and increasing value through embedded replicability and reproducibility in systematic review process and automation. J Clin Epidemiol. 2019 Aug;112:98-99. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2019.04.008. PMID: 31026544.
Shokraneh F, Adams CE. A simple formula for enumerating comparisons in trials and network meta-analysis. F1000Res. 2019 Jan 9;8:38. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.17352.2. PMID: 30863537; PMCID: PMC6402080.
Shokraneh F, Adams CE, Clarke M, Amato L, Bastian H, Beller E, Brassey J, Buchbinder R, Davoli M, Del Mar C, Glasziou P, Gluud C, Heneghan C, Hoffmann T, Ioannidis JP, Jayaram M, Kwong J, Moher D, Ota E, Sheriff RS, Vale L, Goldacre B. Why Cochrane should prioritise sharing data. BMJ. 2018 Jul 30;362:k3229. doi: 10.1136/bmj.k3229. Erratum in: BMJ. 2018 Aug 15;362:k3542. doi: 10.1136/bmj.k3542. PMID: 30061322.
Shokraneh F, Adams CE. Study-based registers of randomized controlled trials: Starting a systematic review with data extraction or meta-analysis. Bioimpacts. 2017;7(4):209-217. doi: 10.15171/bi.2017.25. PMID: 29435428; PMCID: PMC5801532.
Shokraneh F, Adams CE. Increasing value and reducing waste in data extraction for systematic reviews: Tracking data in data extraction forms. Syst Rev. 2017 Aug 4;6(1):153. doi: 10.1186/s13643-017-0546-z. PMID: 28778216; PMCID: PMC5544999.
Teaching and Supervisions
Evidence Synthesis, Systematic Reviews, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Systematic Searching
Other Professional Activities
Farhad is a visiting systematic reviewer at King’s College London and an honorary assistant professor at the University of Nottingham. He delivers systematic review sessions for Doctorate of Forensic Psychology course, tutorials in systematic searching for the British Computer Society, and international webinars on evidence synthesis and the automation of systematic reviews.
Blogging
In his spare time, he blogs about systematic reviews, evidence synthesis, and systematic searching at https://farhadinfo.medium.com/
