Meta- analysis is considered as a method of research in the field of
Meta- analysis is considered as a method of research in the field of libraries and
information and one of the efforts of documentation of intellectual production
.This method is characterized by three characteristics that do not exist without
them:
 Integration (consolidation or integration) between the results of previous
studies,
 Summarizing, comparing and comparing these results,
 Use some statistical methods in this summary to perform bibliometric
analyzes of previous studies,
And this study aims to apply the method of Meta-analysis of the one of
topics of libraries and information is "the World University Rankings and its effect
on Scientific Publishing"