Please provide an example of such a "protocol". Do you mean "protocol" or "proposal"?

Dear sir, please find the example of systematic review protocol at this link. Article Systematic reviews of health economic evaluations: A protoco...

Publishing Protocols for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses

Please note the following from BMJ regarding the above:

Preferred reporting items for systematic review and meta ...

www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g7647

Systematic review protocol—In the context of systematic reviews and meta-analyses, a protocol is a document that presents an explicit scientific “road map” of a planned, uninitiated systematic review. The protocol details the rational and planned methodological and analytical approach of the review. Published in: BMJ · 2015 Authors: Larissa Shamseer · David Moher · Mike Clarke · Davina Ghersi · Alessandro Liberati Affiliation: Ottawa Hospital Research Institute · Queen S University Belfast · National Health and … About: Quality control · Publishing

Dennis

Dennis Mazur

Good question. The two main advantages are: 1) To promote transparency of systematic review methodology; 2) To avoid duplication of systematic reviews. Hope this helps.

Good question Sai Wai Yan Myint Thu. I was thinking about the same topic today and I have found this nice answer from the Cochrane Handbook of Systematic Reviews of Interventions.

" ... publication of a protocol for a review prior to knowledge of the available studies reduces the impact of review authors’ biases, promotes transparency of methods and processes, reduces the potential for duplication, and allows peer review of the planned methods." (Cochrane Handbook, Section 2.1

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Could someone tell me the name of journals (in medicine and psychiatry), which might be interested in protocols of systematic reviews & MA?

Sister journals of the BMJ such as BMJ Open have been publishing protocols of systematic reviews and even observational studies for some time now. Registering research protocols is a positive step towards research transparency and reducing publication bias.

Vikas Menon

Thank you!

BMC systematic reviews.

https://systematicreviewsjournal.biomedcentral.com/

The two main advantages are: 1) To promote transparency of systematic review methodology; 2) To avoid duplication of systematic reviews.

One of the benefits of publishing systematic reviews and meta-analyses is to avoid duplication.