Inclusion & Coding (psychbull-inclusion-and-coding)

The credibility of a synthesis rests on transparent, pre-specified eligibility and reliable coding. Decisions about which studies are in — and how their features are coded — must be reproducible and made by at least two trained coders with documented agreement. This skill governs eligibility and coding; the statistical model lives in psychbull-meta-analysis-methods.

When to trigger

• Writing eligibility (inclusion/exclusion) criteria before full-text screening
• Building the codebook for study features, moderators, and effect-size inputs
• Setting up double-coding and computing inter-rater reliability
• A reviewer questions selection or coding decisions

Eligibility criteria