The Mass Production of Redundant, Misleading, and Conflicted Systematic Reviews and Meta‐analyses

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Authors

John P. A. Ioannidis · Stanford University

Abstract

The production of systematic reviews and meta-analyses has reached epidemic proportions. Possibly, the large majority of produced systematic reviews and meta-analyses are unnecessary, misleading, and/or conflicted.

Topics & Keywords

Meta-analysis and systematic reviews Academic Publishing and Open Access scientometrics and bibliometrics research

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Publication Details

Published in: Milbank Quarterly

Volume 94, Issue 3, pp. 485-514

DOI: 10.1111/1468-0009.12210

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