Kazerani Maryam, Davoudian Atefeh, Zayeri Farid, Soori Hamid
Department of Medical Library and Information Sciences, Faculty of Paramedical Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Faculty of Paramedical Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Med J Islam Repub Iran. 2017 Mar 18;31:18. doi: 10.18869/mjiri.31.18. eCollection 2017.
Systematic reviews and meta-analysis have significant advantages over conventional reviews in that all available data should be presented. This study aimed to evaluate Iranian systematic reviews and meta-analysis abstracts indexed in WOS and Scopus during 2003-2012 based on PRISMA checklist. This is an analytical study. We evaluated 46 article abstracts indexed in WOS, 89 article abstracts indexed in Scopus and 158 article abstracts indexed in WOS and Scopus both (overlapped group). The quality of the abstracts was evaluated according to the PRISMA checklist for abstracts. Some indicators including distribution per year, total citation, average citations per year, average citations per documents and average citations per year in each article were determined through searching the WOS and Scopus Databases' analytical section. Then, the correlations between the abstract's PRISMA scores, average citations per year, and publication year were calculated. The abstract's quality is not desirable as far as the PRISMA criteria are concerned. In other words, none of the articles' abstracts is in line with the PRISMA items. The average of scores of the current study was 5.9 while the maximum score was 12. The PRISMA criteria showed the highest compliance with "Objectives" (98.6%), the second highest with "Synthesis of result" (85%) and "Title" (80.2%) and the lowest compliance with "Registration" (2%). There was a positive correlation between the compliance of PRISMA score and the average citations per year while there was a negative correlation between PRISMA score and the publication year. It seems that the suggested criteria for reporting Iranian systematic reviews and meta-analysis are not considered adequately by the writers and even scientific journal editors.
系统评价和荟萃分析相对于传统综述具有显著优势,因为应呈现所有可用数据。本研究旨在基于PRISMA清单评估2003年至2012年期间被Web of Science(WOS)和Scopus收录的伊朗系统评价和荟萃分析摘要。这是一项分析性研究。我们评估了46篇被WOS收录的文章摘要、89篇被Scopus收录的文章摘要以及158篇同时被WOS和Scopus收录的文章摘要(重叠组)。根据PRISMA摘要清单对摘要质量进行评估。通过搜索WOS和Scopus数据库的分析部分,确定了一些指标,包括每年的分布情况、总被引频次、每年平均被引频次、每篇文献平均被引频次以及每篇文章每年平均被引频次。然后,计算了摘要的PRISMA得分、每年平均被引频次与发表年份之间的相关性。就PRISMA标准而言,摘要质量不尽人意。换句话说,没有一篇文章摘要符合PRISMA项目。本研究的得分平均值为5.9,而最高分是12。PRISMA标准在“目标”方面的符合率最高(98.6%),其次是“结果综合”(85%)和“标题”(80.2%),符合率最低的是“注册”(2%)。PRISMA得分的符合率与每年平均被引频次之间存在正相关,而PRISMA得分与发表年份之间存在负相关。似乎作者甚至科学期刊编辑都没有充分考虑报告伊朗系统评价和荟萃分析的建议标准。