Epidemiology of systematic reviews in imaging journals: evaluation of publication trends and sustainability?

M AlabousiA AlabousiT A McGrathK D CobeyB BudhramR A FrankF NguyenJ P SalamehA Dehmoobad SharifabadiMatthew D F McInnes

Published in: European radiology (2018)

• Systematic review publication rate has increased 23-fold from 2000-2016. • The proportion of systematic reviews to non-systematic reviews has increased 13-fold. • The USA, UK and China are the most frequent published countries; those from the USA and China are increasing the most rapidly.

Keyphrases

meta analyses
systematic review
randomized controlled trial
high resolution
risk factors
cross sectional
mass spectrometry
fluorescence imaging