A survey of prevalence of narrative and systematic reviews in five major medical journals

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Faggion, Clovis Mariano ^a   Bakas, Nikolaos P ^b   Wasiak, Jason ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b NEAPOLIS UNIVERSITY PAFOS   (Cyprus)

^c THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bias; Journal impact factor; Methodological study; Review; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; HUMAN; LITERATURE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICINE; PROCEDURES; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

DATA MINING; HUMANS; MEDICAL WRITING; MEDICINE; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLISHING; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 85040166044     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12874-017-0453-y     Document Type: Review

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