Table 1 Details of included meta-analyses
From: An assessment of the quality of current clinical meta-analyses
Variable | Number |
|---|---|
Number of Meta-Analyses | 100 (100.0) |
Librarian Involved (%) | 20 (20.0) |
Journal (%) | |
➢ Annals of Internal Medicine | 12 (12.0) |
➢ Annals of The Rheumatic Diseases | 10 (10.0) |
➢ Circulation | 10 (10.0) |
➢ European Heart Journal | 13 (13.0) |
➢ Gastroenterology | 12 (12.0) |
➢ Gut | 8 (8.0) |
➢ Journal of American College of Cardiology | 11 (11.0) |
➢ The Journal of The American Medical Association | 10 (10.0) |
➢ Lancet | 7 (7.0) |
➢ World Psychiatry | 7 (7.0) |
Journal Impact Factor (2017 Clarivate) (Mean (SD)) | 24.79 (12.2) |
ScImago Rank (Mean (SD)) | 8.96 (2.0) |
Journal Guidelines Availability (%) | 39 (39.0) |
Compliance with Journal Guidelines (%) | 39 (39.0) |
Area (%) | |
➢ Cardiovascular | 40 (40.0) |
➢ Gastroenterology | 24 (24.0) |
➢ Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology | 15 (15.0) |
➢ Psychiatry | 9 (9.0) |
➢ Rheumatology | 12 (12.0) |
Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (%) | 28 (28.0) |
Network meta-analysis (%) | 10 (10.0) |
Number of Included Studies meta-analysis (Mean (SD)) | 45.0 (57.5) |