The Clinical Research Bias Index (CRBI): A novel journal ranking method applied to child health respiratory studies.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

Journal impact factor has historically been taken as a proxy for quality. However, this is open to significant manipulation and bias. There is currently not widely adopted, robust journal and paper ranking metric which is focused solely on risk of bias.

Methods

Risk of bias data was extracted from all Cochrane database systematic reviews in Child Health, Lungs, and Airways for the years 2017-2019. A novel paper quality score, the Clinical Research Bias Index (CRBI), was applied. Individual paper data were pooled for each journal. A comparison was made to journal impact factors, individual paper citations, reads, and altmetric scores.

Results

927 papers were analyzed for risk of bias. 119 (12·8%) scored a CRBI of 100%, with a mean score of 70%. A jo

SUBMITTER: Vairavan M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9358325 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature