Faculty profile
Shinichi Nakagawa
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Research
Latest papers
A New Effect Size for Meta-Analysis of Magnitude: lnM.
Ecology letters · 2026 · first author
Native and introduced megafauna have convergent effects on animals and ecosystems: a meta-analysis.
Nature communications · 2026
Plant diversity modifies multi-trophic interactions in croplands, grasslands and forests.
Science advances · 2026
Latest funding
- $1,901,336
Open Science and Synthesis in Ecology and Evolution
NSERC · 2022 · Principal investigator
41 publications.
A New Effect Size for Meta-Analysis of Magnitude: lnM.
Nakagawa S, Mizuno A, Williams C, Lagisz M, O'Dea RE, Noble DWA, Senior AM, Lundgren E, Ortega S
Native and introduced megafauna have convergent effects on animals and ecosystems: a meta-analysis.
Lundgren EJ, Nakagawa S, Trepel J, Raymond S, le Roux E, Wooster EIF, Svenning JC
Plant diversity modifies multi-trophic interactions in croplands, grasslands and forests.
Wan NF, Li M, Shen S, Zhou JX, Zhu YT, Woodcock BA, Hu YQ, Nakagawa S, Tilman D, Hector A, Loreau M, Reich PB, Dainese M, Isbell F, Schmid B, Wyckhuys KAG, Gurr GM, Wan L, Eisenhauer N, Hautier Y, Eskelinen A, Bardgett RD, Kardol P, Fraser LH, Su Q, Qiu S, Aartsma Y, Albajes R, Albrecht M, Ali MP, Alvarez HA, Anagonou C, Axmacher JC, Bahauddin D, Bai Y, Bakker ES, Batáry P, Bianchi FJJA, Boetzl FA, Brandmeier J, Bruelheide H, Butcher BA, Butt A, Cai Z, Campbell AJ, Cao F, Cesarz S, Chamorro-Lorenzo L, Chen F, Chen JT, Chen J, Chen LL, Chen Y, Clemente-Orta G, Croijmans L, Crowder D, da Silva Pachú JK, Dassou A, de Sousa Ramalho F, Döring TF, Ebeling A, Fernandes FS, Geisen S, Gidey T, Godoy WAC, Guo J, Hatt S, Heimpel G, Heinze J, Helzer C, Horgan FG, Hu X, Huang Z, Jacobsen SK, Jactel H, Joern A, Jonsson M, Kiriga AW, Kosmala M, Kuang L, Kumar S, Heidari Latiberi M, Li C, Li FR, Li FY, Li J, Li L, Li Q, Li X, Li Y, Li Y, Liu JL, Liu J, Liu WJ, Liu Y, Liu Z, Losapio G, Lu X, Lundin O, Ma Q, Madeira F, Malaquias JB, Ghafouri Moghaddam M, Monmany-Garzia AC, Moreira X, Morente M, Mutua BK, Mutyambai DM, Nakano Y, Novotny V, Ochieng LO, Pappagallo S, Paredes D, Petermann JS, Poelman EH, Portal O, Qu MJ, Ramos Y, Rizvi S, Ruano F, Sang W, Sans-Serra FX, Sattler C, Schöb C, Schrader J, Schuldt A, Settele J, Shang J, Sigsgaard L, Sosa-Gómez DR, Staab M, Steffan-Dewenter I, Stevenson PC, Straub C, Sujii ER, Sutter L, Szefer P, Tahir HM, Tan X, Tanada A, Togni PHB, Török E, Tous-Fandos A, Tovignan S, Tschumi M, Twerski A, Utsumi S, van Apeldoorn DF, Vogel C, Wäckers FL, Wang D, Wang L, Wang L, Wang MQ, Wang S, Wang X, Wang X, Wang Y, Wang YZ, Weisser WW, Welti EAR, Wenda-Piesik A, Wu W, Xi X, Xu Q, Xu Z, Yi H, Zhang L, Zhang X, Zhang X, Zhang Z, Zhong Z, Zhu CD, Zhu H, Zhu P, Zhu Y, Zou Y, Scherber C
A systematic map of generative AI guidelines and reporting in ecology and evolutionary biology: towards the framework of AI disclosure for Improved Transparency (AIdIT).
Drobniak SM, Cendrowska-Pek M, Gudowska A, Janas K, Podkowa P, Skorb K, Gronowska M, Oleś W, Bikmurzina F, Boroń N, Zagalska-Neubauer M, Nakagawa S, Łagisz M, Arct A, Rutkowska J
Using Elicit AI research assistant for data extraction in systematic reviews: A feasibility study across environmental and life sciences.
Lagisz M, Mizuno A, Morrison K, Pollo P, Ricolfi L, Yang Y, Nakagawa S
The impacts of organochlorine pesticides on adverse human health outcomes: A second-order synthesis of mean effects and heterogeneity.
Morrison K, Ricolfi L, Yang Y, Mizuno A, Pollo P, Lagisz M, Nakagawa S
A transparent universal credit system to incentivize peer review.
Moles A, Bonduriansky R, Bonser S, Falster D, Nakagawa S, Andrew N, Lagisz M
Evaluation of the replicability of systematic reviews with meta-analyses of the effects of health interventions.
Hamilton DG, McKenzie JE, Nguyen PY, Rethlefsen ML, McDonald S, Brennan SE, Fidler FM, Higgins JPT, Kanukula R, Karunananthan S, Maxwell LJ, Moher D, Nakagawa S, Nunan D, Tugwell P, Welch VA, Page MJ
Sperm storage causes sperm senescence in human and non-human animals.
Sanghvi K, Dean R, Nakagawa S, Reinhardt K, Sepil I, Vega-Trejo R
New approaches to meta-analyze differences in skewness, kurtosis, and correlation.
Pollo P, Drobniak SM, Haselimashhadi H, Lagisz M, Mizuno A, Wilson LAB, Noble DWA, Nakagawa S
Open Science and Synthesis in Ecology and Evolution
Principal investigators: Nakagawa, Shinichi
Keywords: open science; reproducibility; meta-science; meta-analysis; evolutionary ecology; natural selection; computational biology; research synthesis; meta-research; ecology and evolution
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- David Moher and Peter Tugwell: 18 shared papers
- David Moher and Sathya Karunananthan: 10 shared papers
- Peter Tugwell and Sathya Karunananthan: 10 shared papers
- David Moher and Shinichi Nakagawa: 2 shared papers
- Peter Tugwell and Shinichi Nakagawa: 1 shared paper
- Frederick Colbourne and Shinichi Nakagawa: 1 shared paper
- Sathya Karunananthan and Shinichi Nakagawa: 1 shared paper
- Lauren Guillette and Shinichi Nakagawa: 1 shared paper
- School of Epidemiology and Public Health
- Psychology
- Department of Biological Sciences - University of Alberta
- Interdisciplinary Health Sciences
Co-authors at University of Alberta, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
David Moher
School of Epidemiology and Public Health
2 shared papers, latest 2026
Peter Tugwell
School of Epidemiology and Public Health
1 shared papers, latest 2026
Frederick Colbourne
Psychology
1 shared papers, latest 2026
Sathya Karunananthan
Interdisciplinary Health Sciences
1 shared papers, latest 2026
Lauren Guillette
Psychology
1 shared papers, latest 2025
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