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Ruth Lilly Medical Library

Systematic Reviews and other Evidence Syntheses

Reporting Results Using Guidelines

Your final step is to report your findings. Refer to the PRISMA checklists when writing your manuscript to ensure that it meets the minimum reporting requirements.  Reproducibility is a key feature of a high quality systematic review. 

Note that PRISMA is a reporting guideline, not a methodological guideline for the design and conduct of reviews. Please see the editorial below for guidance on how to properly use and refer to PRISMA in your manuscript.

INCORRECT: 

  • “This scoping review will be conducted according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR) Statement.”

  • “This protocol was designed based on the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Protocols (PRISMA-P) Statement.”

CORRECT:

  • “The reporting of this systematic review was guided by the standards of the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) Statement.”

  • “This scoping review was reported according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR).”

 

Where to Publish

The resources below are commonly used to locate reputable places to publish.  

 

Article on where to publish from Annals of Neurology