Following guidelines is no guarantee of a rigorous systematic review

Articles that support this problem:

Methodological and reporting quality of systematic reviews published in the highest ranking journals in the field of pain

2017 : Anesthesia & analgesia

The quality of systematic reviews in hand surgery: An analysis using AMSTAR

2014 : Plastic and reconstructive surgery

Longitudinal analysis of reporting and quality of systematic reviews in high‐impact surgical journals

2017 : British journal of surgery

Journal impact factor is associated with PRISMA endorsement, but not with the methodological quality of low back pain systematic reviews: a methodological review

2020 : European spine journal

The art and science of study identification: a comparative analysis of two systematic reviews

2016 : Bmc medical research methodology

Quality of Cochrane reviews: assessment of sample from 1998

2001 : Bmj

Blinded by PRISMA: are systematic reviewers focusing on PRISMA and ignoring other guidelines?

2014 : Plos one

Systematic mixed-methods reviews are not ready to be assessed with the available tools

2011 : Journal of clinical epidemiology

The methodological quality of systematic reviews of animal studies in dentistry

2012 : The veterinary journal

Increased risks for random errors are common in outcomes graded as high certainty of evidence

2019 : Journal of clinical epidemiology

Contradictory Findings of Two Recent Meta-Analyses: What Are We Supposed to Believe About Anesthetic Technique in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery?

2021 : Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia

Association Between Prospective Registration and Quality of Systematic Reviews in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Meta-epidemiological Study

2021 : Frontiers in medicine

Quality appraisal of systematic reviews of interventions for children with cerebral palsy reveals critically low confidence

2021 : Developmental medicine & child neurology

Assessing the Reporting of Harms in Systematic Reviews Focused on the Therapeutic and Cosmetic Uses of Botulinum Toxin

2023 : Clinical drug investigation

Changing patterns in reporting and sharing of review data in systematic reviews with meta-analysis of the effects of interventions: cross sectional meta-research study

2022 : Bmj

Systematic review search methods evaluated using the Preferred Reporting of Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses and the Risk Of Bias In Systematic reviews tool

2020 : International journal of technology assessment in health care

Most systematic reviews reporting adherence to AMSTAR 2 had critically low methodological quality: a cross-sectional meta-research study

2024 : Journal of clinical epidemiology

Adherence to systematic review standards: Impact of librarian involvement in Campbell Collaboration's education reviews

2022 : The journal of academic librarianship