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The role of reporting standards in producing robust literature reviews

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Literature reviews can help to inform decision-making, yet they may be subject to fatal bias if not conducted rigorously as ‘systematic reviews’. Reporting standards help authors to provide sufficient methodological detail to allow verification and replication, clarifying when key steps, such as critical appraisal, have been omitted.

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Fig. 1: Increasing interest in systematic reviews over recent years.

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    Neal Robert Haddaway & Biljana Macura

  2. Africa Centre for Evidence, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

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Haddaway, N.R., Macura, B. The role of reporting standards in producing robust literature reviews. Nature Clim Change 8, 444–447 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0180-3

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