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Welcome to the Author Digest We hope you find it helpful. This digest goes out to all active Cochrane authors and will continue to be sent to authors who are opted in. Please review your communication preferences in your Cochrane Account and ensure you are opted in to communications.
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Contents - Preparing a protocol or review for submission? Pre-submission checklists will be mandatory from 1 October
- Writing a Cochrane review abstract: guidance webinar now available
- New draft recommendations for responsible AI use in evidence synthesis
- Work with Cochrane to help ensure that AI is monitored and used effectively
- Everything you need to know about Cochrane’s Editorial Service
- Introducing ROB-ME: a tool for assessing risk of non-reporting biases in systematic reviews with meta-analysis: Sign-Up Open
- Struggling with the data extraction process in Covidence?
- Top tips
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1. Preparing a protocol or review for submission? Pre-submission checklists will be mandatory from 1 October
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From 1 October 2024, it will be mandatory to upload a completed pre-submission checklist alongside your manuscript, when submitting your first draft to Editorial Manager.
These checklists are designed to help you meet our submission requirements. They highlight essential information to include with your submission, and policies with which you must comply. You can download a checklist at any point. We recommend at least 4 weeks before your submission deadline. This will give you time to address any points in the checklist which you may have missed. If you need an extension to your submission deadline after reviewing the checklist, please contact support@cochrane.org.
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2. Writing a Cochrane review abstract: guidance webinar now available
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Cochrane abstracts are often the only part of a Cochrane review that people read. They are widely shared online, including on PubMed. It is important they can be read as stand alone documents which accurately present the results of the review. Watch the webinar recording and download the slides. In this web clinic, Lindsay Robertson covered the general principles of writing an abstract that is clear, easy to understand, and translate. The specific requirements of the new focused review format and the PRISMA checklist were also covered. This session is of particular interest to authors and editors.
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3. New draft recommendations for responsible AI use in evidence synthesis
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This guidance includes tailored advice for a diverse range of roles, whether you're an evidence synthesist, methodologist, AI developer, or an organization, funder or publisher involved in evidence synthesis. It is a first step to help clarify each roles' responsibilities so that together, we can alleviate some of the concerns around AI use. You can find the recommendations on this OSF project page, along with a survey to share your feedback. More detailed 'how to' guidance will be coming soon. This area is too big and moving too fast for us not to work together, so please also let us know if you're working in this area and want to get involved via the survey. This is a joint initiative with International Collaboration for the Automation of Systematic Reviews (ICASR), Cochrane, The Campbell Collaboration, JBI, Collaboration for Environmental Evidence, Wellcome Trust.
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4. Work with Cochrane to help ensure that AI is monitored and used effectively
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Monitoring and using AI effectively is a key focus for Cochrane and is a commitment that forms part of our new Scientific Strategy. As well as the above recommendations for responsible AI use mentioned above, we also wanted to update you on our thinking and some of the other areas we’ve been working on. Read more via futurecochrane.org.
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5. Everything you need to know about Cochrane’s Editorial Service
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Cochrane Central Editorial Service (CES) is the backbone of Cochrane’s independent editorial process, ensuring the quality and integrity of all protocols, reviews, and updates published in the Cochrane Library. This page provides a comprehensive overview of CES, the point at which the team enters the publication process, the tasks they manage and how the new service works with Cochrane groups and authors. Please take a look.
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6. Introducing ROB-ME: a tool for assessing risk of non-reporting biases in systematic reviews with meta-analysis: Sign-Up Open
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Sign-up is now open for the next Methods Support Unit web clinic which will be held on Thursday 3rd October at 8.00 UTC. The presenters will be Dr Matthew Page from Monash University, Australia and Professors Julian Higgins and Jonathan Sterne from the University of Bristol.
Researchers’ decisions about whether, when, how or where to report studies or results are often influenced by the P value, magnitude or direction of the study results (‘non-reporting biases’). A consequence is bias in meta-analyses, because the available evidence differs systematically from the missing evidence. In this web clinic, the presenters will introduce ROB-ME (“Risk Of Bias due to Missing Evidence”), a comprehensive tool for assessing the risk of bias that arises when entire studies, or particular results within studies, are missing from a meta-analysis because of the P value, magnitude, or direction of the study results. The recording of the session will be sent to everyone who signs up, so don’t worry if you can’t attend on the day!
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7. Struggling with the data extraction process in Covidence?
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Struggling with your data extraction process? Let us help! We're offering free 30-minute sessions with an experienced systematic reviewer at Covidence. Whether you need to fine-tune your data extraction template, troubleshoot challenges, or streamline your workflow, our experts are here to guide you. Don't miss this chance to enhance your systematic review process.
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8. Top tips for Cochrane Authors
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Did you know that you can automatically reformat the references in your review in line with the Cochrane Style Manual?
To reformat all existing references in your review, go to any of the reference or study listing pages and select the Action button to view the context menu, then select Reformat all references.
Please refer to the RevMan Knowledge Base for further information on this function.
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