General Orthopaedics
Higher impact clinical journals offer higher quality systematic reviews
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J Clin Epidemiol. 2014 Jul;67(7):754-9
Over a 6 month period, 327 interventional systematic reviews were analyzed to determine the relation between high impact journals and systematic review quality. Results from the review indicated that systematic reviews published in higher impact clinical journals had higher methodological quality than those found in journals with a lower impact factor. In depth analysis suggested that reviews which did not contain a listing of excluded studies or assessments of publication bias were lower quality (assessed by AMSTAR).
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