Editing Cochrane Library (section)

== ''The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews'' ==
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The Cochrane reviews take the format of full-length methodological studies. Cochrane researchers will perform searches of medical and health databases including [[MEDLINE]]/[[PubMed]], [[EMBASE]], [[PsycINFO]], [[CINAHL]], etc.; a continually updated database of trials called the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL); hand searching, where researchers look through entire libraries of [[scientific journal]]s by hand and; reference checking of obtained articles in order to identify additional studies that are relevant to the question they are attempting to answer. The quality of each study is carefully assessed using predefined criteria and evidence of weak methodology or the possibility that a study may have been affected by bias is reported in the review.{{cn|date=June 2024}}

Cochrane researchers then apply [[statistical analysis#Overview|statistical analysis]] to compare the data of the trials. This creates a review of studies, or [[systematic review]], giving a comprehensive view of the efficacy of a particular medical intervention. Finished reviews are available as a full report with diagrams, in condensed form or as a plain language summary, in order to provide for every reader of the review.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cochranelibrary.com/help/training |title=Cochrane Library Training |access-date=2018-12-10}}</ref>

=== Abstracting and indexing ===
According to ''[[Journal Citation Reports]]'', ''The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews'' has a 2021 [[impact factor]] of 11.874, ranking 20th of 172 journals in the Medicine, General and Internal category, down from 11th in 2020 (167 journals).<ref>{{cite web |title=Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews: 2021 Impact Factor |url=https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/about-cdsr |access-date=22 February 2023 |publisher=Cochrane Library}}</ref> Reviews are [[abstracted and indexed]] in the following [[bibliographic databases]]: [[Science Citation Index Expanded]], [[Scopus]], [[CINAHL]], [[EMBASE]], [[MEDLINE]].<ref>{{cite MIAR|issn=1361-6137|access-date=2018-05-31}}</ref>

=== Academic comments ===
The Cochrane Library Feedback tool allows users to provide comments on and feedback of Cochrane Reviews and Protocols in The Cochrane Library. If accepted, the feedback will be published in a scrolling list of comments in reverse chronological order, with the most recent submission at the top of the page.<ref>The Cochrane Collaboration. https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/comments-submission (accessed 10 December 2018)</ref> The Collaboration has a procedure for the event of serious error, an event which has only occurred once in its history.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://community.cochrane.org/editorial-and-publishing-policy-resource/cochrane-review-management/process-event-serious-errors-published-cochrane-reviews |title=Process in the event of serious errors in published Cochrane Reviews |website=community.cochrane.org |language=en |access-date=2018-12-11}}</ref>

===Supplements===
Annual colloquia have been conducted by Cochrane since 1993. From 1994 onwards, Cochrane has maintained a database of posters and presentations of past colloquia. From 2009 onwards, Cochrane published the abstracts of those colloquia as supplements to the ''Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews''. From 2010 to 2016, an annual newsletter related to Cochrane methodology called ''Cochrane Methods'' ({{ISSN|2044-4702}}), was published as an annual supplement.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/supplements |title=Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews: Supplements {{!}} Cochrane Library |website=cochranelibrary.com |access-date=2018-12-11}}</ref>