Improving the quality of toxicology and environmental health systematic reviews: What journal editors can do.
environmental health
epidemiology
research standards
systematic review
toxicology
Journal
ALTEX
ISSN: 1868-8551
Titre abrégé: ALTEX
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 100953980
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2021
2021
Historique:
received:
11
06
2021
accepted:
15
06
2021
entrez:
24
6
2021
pubmed:
25
6
2021
medline:
29
10
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Systematic reviews are fast increasing in prevalence in the toxicology and environmental health literature. However, how well these complex research projects are being conducted and reported is unclear. Since editors have an essential role in ensuring the scientific quality of manuscripts being published in their journals, a workshop was convened where editors, systematic review practitioners, and research quality control experts could discuss what editors can do to ensure the systematic reviews they publish are of sufficient scientific quality. Interventions were explored along four themes: setting standards; reviewing protocols; optimizing editorial workflows; and measuring the effectiveness of editorial interventions. In total, 58 editorial interventions were proposed. Of these, 26 were shortlisted for being potentially effective, and 5 were prioritized as short-term actions that editors could relatively easily take to improve the quality of published systematic reviews. Recent progress in improving systematic reviews is summarized, and outstanding challenges to further progress are highlighted.
Identifiants
pubmed: 34164697
doi: 10.14573/altex.2106111
pmc: PMC9472299
mid: NIHMS1831309
doi:
Types de publication
Editorial
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
513-522Subventions
Organisme : Intramural EPA
ID : EPA999999
Pays : United States
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