Journal impact factor, trial effect size, and methodological quality appear scantly related: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Michael Saginur; Dean Fergusson; Tinghua Zhang; Karen Yeates; Tim Ramsay; George A. Wells; David Moher

doi:10.1186/s13643-020-01305-w

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Journal impact factor, trial effect size, and methodological quality appear scantly related: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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Journal impact factor may have little to no association with study results, or methodological quality, but the evidence is very uncertain.

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