Contour-enhanced meta-analysis funnel plots help distinguish publication bias from other causes of asymmetry.

By J. Peters, A. Sutton, David R. Jones, K. Abrams, L. Rushton. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 2008

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Quantifying Publication Bias in Meta-Analysis (2017, background): “Figure 2 presents their contour-enhanced funnel plots; the shaded regions represent different significance levels (Peters et al., 2008).”
Loneliness and the Big Five Personality Traits: A Meta–Analysis (2020, background): “Contour-enhanced funnel plots with aggregated effect sizes at the study level (Peters et al., 2008) including trim-and-fill imputed studies can be found in Table 8.”
GRADE guidelines: 5. Rating the quality of evidence--publication bias. (2011, background): “Enhancements of funnel plots may (or may not) help to improve reproducibility and validity associated with their use [33].”
A systematic review and meta-analysis of discrepancies between logged and self-reported digital media use (2021, methodology): “To account for study quality and assess potential biases due to small-study effects, which can include publication bias, we visually inspected funnel plot symmetry and performed Egger’s regression test 110,111 for each of the three primary meta-analyses.”
Thresholds for statistical and clinical significance in systematic reviews with meta-analytic methods (2014, background): “05) can be added to the funnel plot and may help to differentiate between funnel plot asymmetry caused by publication bias and other factors [70].”
Sedentary time in adults and the association with diabetes, cardiovascular disease and death: systematic review and meta-analysis (2012, methodology): “Publication bias was assessed by visual inspection of contour-enhanced funnel plots and Egger’s test if there were at least ten studies [16, 17].”
Timing Matters in Hip Fracture Surgery: Patients Operated within 48 Hours Have Better Outcomes. A Meta-Analysis and Meta-Regression of over 190,000 Patients (2012, methodology): “We checked for potential publication and small study effects by the contour enhanced funnel plot [26,27] integrating visual inspection of the plot with the test proposed by Harbord [28].”
Stress-related and basic determinants of hair cortisol in humans: A meta-analysis. (2016, positive): “Publication bias was checked for by rank correlation tests and contour-enhanced funnel plots (Begg and Mazumdar, 1994; Peters et al., 2008).”
Alcohol drinking and colorectal cancer risk: an overall and dose-response meta-analysis of published studies. (2011, methodology): “Publication bias was assessed using the tests by Egger [82], Begg and Mazumdar [83], the trim and fill method [84], and the contourenhanced funnel plots [85].”