Evidence Synthesis

• Protocol registration is a best practice recommended by major review guidelines such as Cochrane, the JBI Manual, and the PRISMA Reporting Guidelines
• Reduces bias by establishing your criteria a priori
• Much of the information within the protocol will assist with the article formatting and writing
• Promotes transparent research methodology and open science
• Establishes provenance of your research topic
• Reduces duplication of efforts and promotes collaboration

You can register your protocol with the following organisations:

Open Science Framework (OSF)

An open source, multidisciplinary web application that connects and supports the research workflow.

• Researchers use the OSF to collaborate, document, archive, share, and register research projects, materials, and data.
• OSF can be used to pre-register a systematic review protocol and to share documents such as a Zotero library, search strategies, and data extraction forms.
• Unlike other registries, evidence synthesis author teams do not submit their protocols for review by an editorial board before they are accepted and pre-registered on OSF. Instead, create your own pre-registration (instructions here).
• OSF has a Generalised Systematic Review Registration Form that is designed for use across disciplines and evidence synthesis types (e.g., scoping reviews, meta-analysis). Check out an example of a pre-registered systematic review and meta-analysis protocol here.

Disciplines: All

PROSPERO

An international database of prospectively registered systematic reviews in health and social care. Key features from the review protocol are recorded and maintained as a permanent record. (Does not accept scoping reviews)

Disciplines: Health and Social Care, Welfare, Public Health, Education, Crime, Justice, and International Development

Collaboration for Environmental Evidence

"An open community of stakeholders working towards a sustainable global environment and the conservation of biodiversity. CEE seeks to promote and deliver evidence syntheses on issues of greatest concern to environmental policy and practice as a public service."

Disciplines: Environmental issues

Register protocols for affiliated members only:

Cochrane

"Our mission is to promote evidence-informed health decision-making by producing high-quality, relevant, accessible systematic reviews and other synthesised research evidence. Our work is internationally recognised as the benchmark for high-quality information about the effectiveness of health care."

Disciplines: Healthcare 

Campbell Collaboration

"The Campbell Collaboration promotes positive social and economic change through the production and use of systematic reviews and other evidence synthesis for evidence-based policy and practice."

Disciplines: Business and Management, Crime and Justice, Disability, Education, International Development, Knowledge Translation and Implementation, Methods, Nutrition, and Social Welfare

JBI Systematic Review Register

This register is for the use of JBI affiliated entities only. Registration of a systematic review title on the JBI website is to promote collaboration between affiliated entities via highlighting current work to other JBI review authors and to recognise that the registered topic is currently in development to avoid any unintended and/or unnecessary duplication of research effort.