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Protocol-based Systematic literature review

A protocol-based systematic literature review is a systematic review conducted according to a fully pre-specified and publicly registered research protocol. By committing the review question, eligibility criteria, search strategy, and planned analyses to a registered document before data collection begins, this approach minimises post-hoc decision-making, selective outcome reporting, and the accumulation bias that can undermine the credibility of unregistered reviews. Registration platforms such as PROSPERO and the Open Science Framework provide permanent, time-stamped records of the protocol.

Evidence statusSources recorded, not reviewedBibliographic sources are present. Claim-level evidence review has not been performed.

Source record

Recorded

Citations copied verbatim from the method’s source record. No claim-level verification is inferred from them.

Protocol-Registered Systematic Literature Review

Taxonomic method recordprocess-pipelinescientometrics

  1. Higgins, J. P. T., Thomas, J., Chandler, J., Cumpston, M., Li, T., Page, M. J., & Welch, V. A. (Eds.). (2023). Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions (Version 6.4). Cochrane. Retrieved from https://training.cochrane.org/handbook · URL

  2. Moher, D., Shamseer, L., Clarke, M., Ghersi, D., Liberati, A., Petticrew, M., Shekelle, P., & Stewart, L. A. (2015). Preferred reporting items for systematic review and meta-analysis protocols (PRISMA-P) 2015 statement. Systematic Reviews, 4(1), 1. · DOI 10.1186/2046-4053-4-1

Open full method2 recorded citations, copied from the method source record.

Curated claims

Assessed

Claims persisted in the evidence ledger, each with its own assessment.

No curated claims yet

This view does not invent a claim assessment when the ledger has none.

Related methods

Suggested5

Generated from the method graph and shown as machine-suggested relations. No evidence claim is inferred.