| Ref ID | 849 |
| First Author | A. Brunskill |
| Journal | JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION |
| Year Of Publishing | 2022 |
| URL | https://jmla.pitt.edu/ojs/jmla/article/view/1505 |
| Keywords |
• Team • Author • Protocols • Expertise • Searching • Non-Cochrane reviews |
| 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 analyze the documented role of a librarian in published systematic reviews and meta-analyses whose registered protocols mentioned librarian involvement. |
| Level of Investigation | Descriptive |
| Summary of Findings | From 209 systematic reviews and meta-analyses whose registered protocols mentioned librarian involvement registered in PROSPERO between 2017 and 2018. Of the 209 included reviews 28% had a librarian co-author, 41% named a librarian in the acknowledgements section, and 78% mentioned the contribution of a librarian within the body of the review. However, mentions of a librarian within the included review were often generic (“a librarian”) and in 31% of all reviews analysed no librarian was specified by name. In 9% of the reviews, there was no reference to a librarian found at all. |
| Number of systematic reviews included | 206 |
| Number of eligible systematic reviews assessed | 213 |
| Treatment impacted | No |
| Treatment impacted description | |
| Interpretation impacted | Not Applicable |
| Interpretation impacted description |