

T1 - Adherence to literature search reporting guidelines in leading rheumatology journals' systematic reviews Articles in any language will be considered.",
#FLORES SPRESS MANUAL#
This protocol complies with guidelines such as PRISMA 2020, PRISMA-A, PRISMA-P, PRISMA-S, PRESS, and JBI Manual for evidence synthesis, as long as it is suitable for umbrella review protocols. Data summaries will be presented in graphs, figures, tables and network maps. Databases to be consulted are Web of Science, PubMed and Scopus, from inception to present. Exclusion criteria are articles published before 2009 retraction letters, notes, expressions of concern systematic reviews using PRISMA 2020. Inclusion criteria for this umbrella review protocol are systematic reviews (with or without meta-analyses) that mention having followed the PRISMA statement (2009) in their methods section, and published in journals listed in the Rheumatology category of the Journal of Citations Report 2020. The objective of the study is to analyze the compliance with the PRISMA (2009) search strategy guidelines among systematic reviews published in leading rheumatology journals. This protocol intends to answer to what extent systematic reviews published in rheumatology journals have complied with the PRISMA's search strategy guidelines published in 2009. Systematic reviews may not comply completely with those guidelines despite explicitly stating they do.

Despite the available guidelines, several studies have shown that the quality of reporting in systematic reviews is deficient in several medical fields. They are not only informative of the retrieval process, but they also set the data to be analyzed and influence additional components of systematic reviews. Articles in any language will be considered.Ībstract = "Literature searches are important components of systematic reviews.

Literature searches are important components of systematic reviews.
