Ever wondered what to do with the >80k citations of the PRISMA standards for #SystematicReviews and #MetaAnalysis?

I did a bibliometric analysis of authors who use PRISMA. Join my presentation next week:

https://social.cwts.nl/@cwts/114274695842290362

When we talk about grey literature, do we also consider grey information and grey data? I usually define it as conference papers, dissertations, and preprints only.

A worthwhile read on this topic: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-016-0337-y

Can anyone explain to me the relationship between the "SHOW ME the evidence" paper published in JBI Evidence Implementation, Campbell Systematic Reviews, Clinical and Public Health Guidelines, Cochrane, and Environmental Evidence in November, and the "Evidence Synthesis Infrastructure Collaborative"?
#EvidenceSynthesis #SystematicReviews

Remember Ludwig Fleck's socio-intellectual forms of science? In 1935, he described the novelty of findings along different document types that can be found in science. Today, many links between document types and intellectual functions can be identified. Think of #Preprints, #SystematicReviews #MetaAnalysis #Guidelines #Handbooks #SoftwarePaper #DataPaper etc.
(I put a little typology here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.15154)

Researchers planning to do #SystematicReviews must now plan to filter out the #JunkScience. That's difficult, time-consuming, error-prone, and demoralizing. It causes some researchers to drop their plans and forces others to move more slowly.
https://www.science.org/content/article/systematic-reviews-aim-extract-broad-conclusions-many-studies-are-peril
(#paywalled)

#Academia #LiteratureReviews #MetaResearch #MetaScience #ScholComm
@academicchatter

“They are poisoning the well”. It seems that more and more fake #papers creep into the literature threatening #SystematicReviews (but also #science in general…).

Not surprisingly, #PeerReview doesn't seem to be able to fend this off...

https://www.science.org/content/article/systematic-reviews-aim-extract-broad-conclusions-many-studies-are-peril

@SciMag is alarmed that low quality articles are flawing #SystematicReviews.

One solution is to only include studies that are in #opendata.

Another is to ignore #predatory and journals in the "gray zone" (e.g. all #MDPI, #Frontiers, #ScientificReports, etc.) as we already do in evaluation committees.

https://www.science.org/content/article/systematic-reviews-aim-extract-broad-conclusions-many-studies-are-peril

Have you ever seen an SR that did a sensitivity analysis based on only the OA included papers? Or even pointed out how many of the included papers are OA? Would love to read examples, don't care if they included only version of record OA or not.
#EvidenceSynthesis #SystematicReviews #OA #OpenAccess

Exploring the use of generative artificial intelligence in systematic searching: A comparative case study of a human librarian, ChatGPT-4 and ChatGPT-4 Turbo - Xiayu Summer Chen, Yali Feng, 2024 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03400352241263532 #AI #SystematicReviews #librarians

Just out

#PrismaCosmin 2024

A #ReportingGuideline for reporting #SysReviews of outcome measurement instruments:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11136-024-03634-y

It aims to improve the reporting of #SystematicReviews of OMIs, fostering their reproducibility and allowing end-users to appraise the quality of OMIs.

It consists of two checklists, their corresponding explanation and elaboration documents detailing the rationale and examples for each item, and a data flow diagram.

Just learned about the Result Assessment Tool (RAT)

Is anyone using this for #GreyLit in #EvidenceSynthesis #systematicreviews ?
#medlibs

Call for Manuscripts for the "Journal of Systematic #Reviews" (JSR), a newly launched #OpenAccess journal

JSR is an international, peer-reviewed, bi-annual, multidisciplinary, #OA journal devoted to all aspects of the design, conduct and reporting of #SystematicReviews, #ScopingReviews, and #MetaAnalyses.

The journal’s mission is to publish original papers which contribute to the advancement of #science, and specially the #methodology of systematic reviews.

https://digitalization.site/index.php/jsr

public talk (online):

This Friday, I will present qualitative and quantitative analyses of the #PRISMA guideline for #SystematicReviews in biomedicine. I will look at standardizing science from #Sociology and #STS perspectives:

https://www.cwts.nl/seminars/announcements?article=n-t2q2a4&title=reporting-guidelines-and-their-impact-on-papers-practices-and-patterns-in-biomedical-research

@cwts

Something read and reviewed, and something reviewed and published (and read, hopefully)

#books #reviews #systematicreviews #multiplesclerosis

https://neurontosomething.wordpress.com/2024/04/27/my-brain-citation-needed/

Dear @OpenAlex people and other #SysRev enthusiastics:

I'm in the process of planning a number of #SystematicReviews. It would be great if we'd be able to use #OpenAlex instead of paywalled #bibliographic databases and interfaces.

There are 2 challenges.

OpenAlex is huge (which is great). The Subjects can help here I guess, but open to other suggestions!

In OpenAlex Web, I can't figure out how to search in Titles Only. When adding a filter, 'title' isn't available...

What am I missing?

Hi @medlibs and others up on #EvidenceSynthesis #medlibs #SystematicReviews

I read some PICO Portal documentation yesterday because a library user's friend really likes it, and I have questions. #3 is my top priority. Any insight? Thanks!

New post: A view from the Sicily Evidence-Based Healthcare Conference

https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2023/11/01/a-view-from-the-sicily-evidence-based-healthcare-conference/

Last week was the 10th international gathering of EBHC teachers & developers in Sicily. I reflect on some of the major themes - "living" systematic reviews & guidelines, pandemic divisions, & equity in EBHC.