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Background: Cochrane systematic reviews (CSRs) are systematic reviews of primary research in human health care and health policy, and are internationally recognized as the highest standard in evidence-based health care.
Objectives: To investigate which journals have cited CSRs and articles in which groups are more likely to be cited by other journals.
Methods: All CSRs published in the Web of Science from inception to December 2012 were retrieved and information extracted about the published year, group, the citation frequency of each CSR, journals citing CSRs. Two reviewers independently performed data extraction.
Results: Of 5647 CSRs from database searching, 3874 CSRs were cited in other articles. Until December 2012, each CSR published in 2007 has been cited 16.94 times on average, followed by CSR published in 2006 (15.67 times), 2008(14.98 times) and others were shown on Table 1. A CSR published in 2006 has been cited as much as 320 times.Table 2 showed that of 1794 journals which have cited CSRs, Cochrane database of systematic reviews (CDSR) has cited 793 (11.7%) CSRs, followed by American family physician 93 (1.37%), Plos one 89 (1.31%), European journal of physical and rehabilitation medicine 83 (1.22%) and Pediatrics 58(0.86%).4 journals has cited 51–100 CSRs, 21 journals has cited 21–50 CSRs, 103 journals has cited 11–20 CSRs, 180 journals has cited 6–10 CSRs and 843 journals has cited only one CSR.Table 3 showed that every CSR in Methodology Review Groupp has been cited 17 times on average, followed by Consumers and Communication Group (7.58), Back Group (7.38), Tobacco Addiction Group (6.76), Drugs and Alcohol Group (6.65).
Conclusions: This survey showed that except for CDSRs, CSRs also have been widely cited by other journals. But the citation of different groups was imbalanced. Therefore, efficient measures should be taken by some groups to improve the quality of CSRs, so as to provide evidence for more articles.
Objectives: To investigate which journals have cited CSRs and articles in which groups are more likely to be cited by other journals.
Methods: All CSRs published in the Web of Science from inception to December 2012 were retrieved and information extracted about the published year, group, the citation frequency of each CSR, journals citing CSRs. Two reviewers independently performed data extraction.
Results: Of 5647 CSRs from database searching, 3874 CSRs were cited in other articles. Until December 2012, each CSR published in 2007 has been cited 16.94 times on average, followed by CSR published in 2006 (15.67 times), 2008(14.98 times) and others were shown on Table 1. A CSR published in 2006 has been cited as much as 320 times.Table 2 showed that of 1794 journals which have cited CSRs, Cochrane database of systematic reviews (CDSR) has cited 793 (11.7%) CSRs, followed by American family physician 93 (1.37%), Plos one 89 (1.31%), European journal of physical and rehabilitation medicine 83 (1.22%) and Pediatrics 58(0.86%).4 journals has cited 51–100 CSRs, 21 journals has cited 21–50 CSRs, 103 journals has cited 11–20 CSRs, 180 journals has cited 6–10 CSRs and 843 journals has cited only one CSR.Table 3 showed that every CSR in Methodology Review Groupp has been cited 17 times on average, followed by Consumers and Communication Group (7.58), Back Group (7.38), Tobacco Addiction Group (6.76), Drugs and Alcohol Group (6.65).
Conclusions: This survey showed that except for CDSRs, CSRs also have been widely cited by other journals. But the citation of different groups was imbalanced. Therefore, efficient measures should be taken by some groups to improve the quality of CSRs, so as to provide evidence for more articles.