Elsevier

Resuscitation

Volume 187, June 2023, 109799
Resuscitation

Letter to the Editor
“De trop” meta-analyses and systematic reviews in cardiopulmonary resuscitation – A way to rapidly improve authors’ citation index at a price of real science

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Abstract

Meta-analyses and systematic reviews (MSR) have been conceived as tools to summarize evidence on a specific health question. However, in the last years, an exaggerated number of MSRs published by scientific journals has been observed, i.e. 286 MSRs in the field of Resuscitation Science over the last 3 years, i.e. approximately 95 per year. Thus, doubts on the real scientific need of such a high number of MSRs may arise, potentially being only a way to rapidly improve authors’ citation index and fame and sometimes the journals’ impact factor.

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Conflict of interest

GR is ERC Director Congresses. All other authors declared no conflicts.

CRediT authorship contribution statement

Giulia Merigo: Writing – original draft. Ivan Silvestri: Writing – original draft. Aurora Magliocca: Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing. Francesca Fumagalli: Writing – review & editing. Giuseppe Ristagno: Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing.

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