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Systematic Reviews

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Open access

Overview

With over 4.9 million article accesses in 2025 alone, Systematic Reviews is one of the world’s leading journals in applied methodology. We publish evidence syntheses in clinical, pre-clinical and other health-related fields and associated methodology.  This spans the growing range of review types and we accept full systematic, rapid, scoping and realist reviews regardless of the significance the of findings, providing that they are methodologically rigorous. Our esteemed Editorial Board welcomes submissions of review results, protocols and articles and commentaries on review methodology across this range.

Editor-in-Chief
  • Craig Lockwood

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Journal Impact Factor
3.9 (2024)
5-year Journal Impact Factor
4.7 (2024)
Submission to first decision (median)
51 days
Downloads
4.1M (2024)

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Electronic ISSN
2046-4053
Abstracted and indexed in
  1. BFI List
  2. Baidu
  3. CAB Abstracts
  4. CLOCKSS
  5. CNKI
  6. CNPIEC
  7. Chinese Academy of Medical Science (CAMS)
  8. Current Contents/Clinical Medicine
  9. DOAJ
  10. Dimensions
  11. EBSCO
  12. EMBASE
  13. EMCare
  14. Gale
  15. GoOA - The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
  16. Google Scholar
  17. IFIS Publishing
  18. Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
  19. Medline
  20. Naver
  21. Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series
  22. OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
  23. Portico
  24. ProQuest
  25. Psyndex
  26. PubMedCentral
  27. Reaxys
  28. SCImago
  29. SCOPUS
  30. Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
  31. Semantic Scholar
  32. TD Net Discovery Service
  33. Wanfang
  34. eLibrary.ru
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