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Dr. Julian Hirt

Department of Clinical Research
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Academic interests and initiatives

Julian is interested in (more than) evidence synthesis, (other) research designs and methods, evidence-based research and practice, and meta-research (research on research).


He joined the research group of Prof. Dr. Lars G. Hemkens in 2021 and co-coordinated the COVID-evidence and the PragMeta project, both SNSF-funded living public databases of randomized trials assessing interventions to treat or prevent COVID-19 (COVID-evidence) and randomized trials with different degrees of pragmatism (PragMeta). Using these databases, he performed evidence syntheses and meta-research within a team of national and international collaborators. 


Julian co-developed RefHunter, a platform for systematic literature search, and the TARCiS statement that provides guidance on terminology, application, and reporting of citation searching. He is a core team member of the Library of Guidance for Health Scientists (LIGHTS). He is also a lecturer and research fellow 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 dementia and evidence-based healthcare.


Visit Julian's ResearchGate profile to get a comprehensive overview of his scientific output and teaching topics.

Selected Publications

Hirt, Julian, Dembowska, Kinga, Woelfle, Tim, Axfors, Cathrine, Granziera, Cristina, Kuhle, Jens, Kappos, Ludwig, Hemkens, Lars G., & Janiaud, Perrine. (2024). Clinical trial evidence of quality-of-life effects of disease-modifying therapies for multiple sclerosis: a systematic analysis. Journal of Neurology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-024-12366-5

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Hirt, Julian, Nordhausen, Thomas, Fuerst, Thomas, Ewald, Hannah, Appenzeller-Herzog, Christian, & on behalf of the TARCiS study group. (2024). Guidance on terminology, application, and reporting of citation searching: the TARCiS statement. BMJ, 385. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2023-078384

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Hirt, J., Schönenberger, C. M., Ewald, H., Lawson, D. O., Papola, D., Rohner, R., Suter, K., Lin, S., Germini, F., Zeng, L., Shahabinezhad, A., Chowdhury, S. R., Gao, Y., Bhattacharjee, A., Lima, J. P., Marusic, A., Buljan, I., Agarwal, A., Guyatt, G. H., et al. (2023). Introducing the Library of Guidance for Health Scientists (LIGHTS): a living database for methods guidance. JAMA Netw Open, 6(2), e2253198. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.53198

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Hirt, Julian, Janiaud, Perrine, Gloy, Viktoria Luise, Schandelmaier, Stefan, Pereira, Tiago V., Contopoulos-Ioannidis, Despina, Goodman, Steven N., Ioannidis, John, Munkholm, Klaus, & Hemkens, Lars G. (2023). Robustness of reported postacute health outcomes in children with SARS-CoV-2 infection: A systematic review. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 108, 498–505. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2022-324455

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Hirt, Julian, Nordhausen, Thomas, Meichlinger, Jasmin, Braun, Volker, Zeller, Adelheid, & Meyer, Gabriele. (2020). Educational interventions to improve literature searching skills in the health sciences: A scoping review. Journal of the Medical Library Association, 108, 534–546. https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2020.954

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