Reflections and aspirations: the journal after 5 years

doi:10.1186/s13643-018-0753-2

Editorial

. 2018 Jun 20;7(1):87.

doi: 10.1186/s13643-018-0753-2.

Reflections and aspirations: the journal after 5 years

David Moher¹, Lesley A Stewart², Paul Shekelle³

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¹ Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, General Campus, 501 Smyth Road, Room L1288, Ottawa, ON, K1H 8L6, Canada. dmoher@ohri.ca.
² Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York, Heslington, York, UK.
³ West Los Angeles VA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

PMID: 29925414
PMCID: PMC6011401
DOI: 10.1186/s13643-018-0753-2

Editorial

Reflections and aspirations: the journal after 5 years

David Moher et al. Syst Rev. 2018.

. 2018 Jun 20;7(1):87.

doi: 10.1186/s13643-018-0753-2.

Authors

David Moher¹, Lesley A Stewart², Paul Shekelle³

Affiliations

¹ Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, General Campus, 501 Smyth Road, Room L1288, Ottawa, ON, K1H 8L6, Canada. dmoher@ohri.ca.
² Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York, Heslington, York, UK.
³ West Los Angeles VA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

PMID: 29925414
PMCID: PMC6011401
DOI: 10.1186/s13643-018-0753-2

Abstract

The journal recently celebrated its fifth anniversary. Like systematic reviews themselves, the journal is thriving and publishing a variety of protocols, reviews, and methods papers. We have also had success in publishing-themed series.

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1. Page MJ, Shamseer L, Altman DG, Tetzlaff J, Sampson M, Tricco AC, et al. Epidemiology and reporting characteristics of systematic reviews of biomedical research: a cross-sectional study. PLoS Med. 2016;13(5):e1002028. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002028. - DOI - PMC - PubMed
1. Booth A, Clarke M, Dooley G, Ghersi D, Moher D, Petticrew M, Stewart L. The nuts and bolts of PROSPERO: an international prospective register of systematic reviews. Syst Rev. 2012;1:2. doi: 10.1186/2046-4053-1-2. - DOI - PMC - PubMed
1. Schmid SL. Five years post-DORA: promoting best practices for research assessment. Mol Biol Cell. 2017;28(22):2941–2944. doi: 10.1091/mbc.e17-08-0534. - DOI - PMC - PubMed
1. Larivière V, Kiermer V, MacCallum CJ, McNutt M, Patterson M, Pulverer B, Swaminathan S, Taylor S, Curry S. A simple proposal for the publication of journal citation distributions. 2016.

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[1] Bastian H, Glasziou P, Chalmers I. Seventy-five trials and eleven systematic reviews a day: how will we ever keep up? PLoS Med. 2010;7:e1000326. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000326. - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[2] Bastian H, Glasziou P, Chalmers I. Seventy-five trials and eleven systematic reviews a day: how will we ever keep up? PLoS Med. 2010;7:e1000326. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000326. - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[3] Page MJ, Shamseer L, Altman DG, Tetzlaff J, Sampson M, Tricco AC, et al. Epidemiology and reporting characteristics of systematic reviews of biomedical research: a cross-sectional study. PLoS Med. 2016;13(5):e1002028. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002028. - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[4] Page MJ, Shamseer L, Altman DG, Tetzlaff J, Sampson M, Tricco AC, et al. Epidemiology and reporting characteristics of systematic reviews of biomedical research: a cross-sectional study. PLoS Med. 2016;13(5):e1002028. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002028. - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[5] Booth A, Clarke M, Dooley G, Ghersi D, Moher D, Petticrew M, Stewart L. The nuts and bolts of PROSPERO: an international prospective register of systematic reviews. Syst Rev. 2012;1:2. doi: 10.1186/2046-4053-1-2. - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[6] Booth A, Clarke M, Dooley G, Ghersi D, Moher D, Petticrew M, Stewart L. The nuts and bolts of PROSPERO: an international prospective register of systematic reviews. Syst Rev. 2012;1:2. doi: 10.1186/2046-4053-1-2. - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[7] Schmid SL. Five years post-DORA: promoting best practices for research assessment. Mol Biol Cell. 2017;28(22):2941–2944. doi: 10.1091/mbc.e17-08-0534. - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[8] Schmid SL. Five years post-DORA: promoting best practices for research assessment. Mol Biol Cell. 2017;28(22):2941–2944. doi: 10.1091/mbc.e17-08-0534. - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[9] Larivière V, Kiermer V, MacCallum CJ, McNutt M, Patterson M, Pulverer B, Swaminathan S, Taylor S, Curry S. A simple proposal for the publication of journal citation distributions. 2016.

[10] Larivière V, Kiermer V, MacCallum CJ, McNutt M, Patterson M, Pulverer B, Swaminathan S, Taylor S, Curry S. A simple proposal for the publication of journal citation distributions. 2016.

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