While the practice of investigative interviewing has traditionally been grounded in customary knowledge, decades of research have now enhanced our understanding of the limits of these practices and led to the development of novel, theoretically informed approaches. The maturity of any science is likely best evidenced in the conduct of systematic reviews and meta‐analyses, and the investigative interviewing research literature has reached just such a period in its development. This paper reviews current “best practices” in research synthesis, describes the variety of meta‐analyses conducted in the investigative interviewing research literature to date, and introduces the nine reviews that comprise the current special issue. It concludes by summarizing the lessons learned from these syntheses with respect to improving our research methods, measures, and approaches in the investigative interviewing literature.

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“什么有效？” 对调查性访谈研究文献的系统评价和荟萃分析

虽然调查性访谈的惯例传统上是基于习惯知识，但数十年来的研究现已增强了我们对这些惯例的局限性的理解，并导致了新颖，理论上合理的方法的发展。任何科学的成熟都可能在进行系统的评论和荟萃分析时得到最好的证明，而调查性访谈研究文献也正处于其发展的这一时期。本文回顾了当前研究综合中的“最佳实践”，描述了迄今为止在调查性访谈研究文献中进行的各种荟萃分析，并介绍了构成当前特刊的九篇评论。最后总结了从这些综合中学到的经验教训，以改进我们的研究方法，措施，