Language restriction

Articles that support this problem:

Quality of urological systematic reviews registered in PROSPERO

2019 : Bju international

How Often Do Systematic Reviews Exclude Articles Not Published in English?

2019 : Journal of general internal medicine

Heterogeneity in search strategies among Cochrane acupuncture reviews: is there room for improvement?

2010 : Acupuncture in medicine

Language of publication restrictions in systematic reviews gave different results depending on whether the intervention was conventional or complementary

2005 : Journal of clinical epidemiology

Quality assessment of systematic reviews on alveolar ridge preservation

2013 : Journal of the american dental association

Excluding non-English publications from evidence-syntheses did not change conclusions: a meta-epidemiological study

2020 : Journal of clinical epidemiology

Systematic reviews and meta-analyses of traditional Chinese medicine must search Chinese databases to reduce language bias

2013 : Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine

Methodological quality of meta-analyses on treatments for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a cross-sectional study using the AMSTAR (Assessing the Methodological Quality of Systematic Reviews) tool

2015 : Npj primary care respiratory medicine

The inclusion of reports of randomised trials published in languages other than English in systematic reviews

2003 : Health technol assess

Systematic reviews with language restrictions and no author contact have lower overall credibility: a methodology study

2015 : Clinical epidemiology

Methodological quality and risk-of-bias assessments in systematic reviews of treatments for peri-implantitis

2019 : Journal of periodontal research

Reporting quality of search methods in systematic reviews of HIV behavioral interventions (2000–2010): are the searches clearly explained, systematic and reproducible?

2014 : Research synthesis methods

Searching additional databases except PubMed are necessary for a systematic review

2008 : Stroke

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

2018 : Systematic reviews

Searching practices and inclusion of unpublished studies in systematic reviews of diagnostic accuracy

2020 : Research synthesis methods

Grey literature in systematic reviews: a cross-sectional study of the contribution of non-English reports, unpublished studies and dissertations to the results of meta-analyses in child-relevant reviews

2017 : Bmc medical research methodology

Epidemiology and Reporting Characteristics of Systematic Reviews of Biomedical Research: A Cross-Sectional Study

2016 : Plos medicine

Photodynamic therapy for root canal disinfection in endodontics: an umbrella review

2022 : Lasers in medical science

An analysis of data sources and study registries used in systematic reviews

2022 : World views on evidence based nursing

Restrictions and their reporting in systematic reviews of effectiveness: an observational study

2022 : Bmc medical research methodology