Attitudes of editors of core clinical journals about whether systematic reviews are original research: a mixed-methods study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

In 2009, not all journal editors considered systematic reviews (SRs) to be original research studies, and not all PubMed Core Clinical Journals published SRs. The aim of this study was to conduct a new analysis about editors' opinion regarding SRs as original research.

Design

We conducted a survey and qualitative interview study of journal editors.

Participants

All editors listed as editor-in chief of 118 PubMed Core Clinical Journals.

Methods

We contacted editors via email and asked them whether they considered SRs original research, whether they published SRs in the journal and, if yes, in which section. We searched PubMed for any SRs (or meta-analyses) published in the included journals in 2017; if we did not find any, we hand-searched these journ

SUBMITTER: Krnic Martinic M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6720555 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature