| Ref ID | 798 |
| First Author | J. Schellinger |
| Journal | PLOS ONE [ELECTRONIC RESOURCE] |
| Year Of Publishing | 2021 |
| URL | https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0256833 |
| Keywords |
• Searching • Team • Dentistry • Author • Reproducibility |
| Problem(s) |
• Literature searches not validated by information specialist |
| Article Type | Empirical |
| Article Subtype | Cross-sectional survey/Methodological systematic review |
| First Author Country | United States |
| Aim | To assess whether librarian or information specialist authorship is associated with reproducibility of the search, at least three databases searched, and better reporting quality in dental systematic reviews from highly cited dental medicine journals indexed in PubMed on June 18, 2018. |
| Level of Investigation | Analytical |
| Summary of Findings | From 913 included dental systematic reviews from highly cited dental medicine journals indexed in PubMed on June 18, 2018. Librarians were co-authors in only 2.5% of the 913 included systematic reviews and librarians were mentioned or acknowledged in only 9% of included systematic reviews. Librarian co-authors were associated with more reproducible searches, higher search quality, and at least three databases searched. Although the results indicate librarians are associated with improved systematic review quality, due to the small number of systematic reviews that included a librarian, results were not statistically significant. |
| Number of systematic reviews included | 913 |
| Number of eligible systematic reviews assessed | 1343 |
| Treatment impacted | No |
| Treatment impacted description | |
| Interpretation impacted | No |
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