The prevalence of and factors associated with inclusion of non-English language studies in Campbell systematic reviews: A survey and meta-epidemiological study

Systematic Reviews

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Neimann Rasmussen, Lauge ^a   Montgomery, Paul ^b  

^a The Danish Consumer Council   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Campbell Collaboration; Country bias; Language bias; Location bias; Systematic reviews

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FUNDING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCIENTIST; SKILL; SOCIOLOGY; SPEECH; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TEAMWORK; VALIDITY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; RESEARCH; STATISTICAL BIAS; TRANSLATING (LANGUAGE);

BIAS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PREVALENCE; RESEARCH; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TRANSLATING;

EID: 85052292766     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20464053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13643-018-0786-6     Document Type: Article

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