SynthesisVaccine2018
A bibliometric analysis of systematic reviews on vaccines and immunisation.
Synthesis in Vaccine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
11 citing papers in PubMed.
- Mapping inequities in global vaccine sentiment research.BMJ global health · 2025Article
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- Global Research Trend in Vaccine Design.Vaccines · 2022Review
- Trends and focuses of hantavirus researches: a global bibliometric analysis and visualization from 1980 to 2020.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2022Article
- Impact of industry sponsorship on the quality of systematic reviews of vaccines: a cross-sectional analysis of studies published from 2016 to 2019.Systematic reviews · 2022Article
- Bibliometric Analysis and Visualization Mapping of Anthrax Vaccine Publications from 1991 through 2021.Vaccines · 2022Article
- Research hotspots and emerging trends of deep learning applications in orthopedics: A bibliometric and visualized study.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- A global bibliometric analysis of research productivity on vaccine hesitancy from 1974 to 2019.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2021Article
- Bibliometric analysis of global scientific literature on vaccine hesitancy in peer-reviewed journals (1990-2019).BMC public health · 2020Article
- Bibliometric Analysis of Dendritic Epidermal T Cell (DETC) Research From 1983 to 2019.Frontiers in immunology · 2020Article
- Knowledge mapping of online healthcare: An interdisciplinary visual analysis using VOSviewer and CiteSpace.Digital healthReview
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
Abstract
introductionSYSVAC is an online bibliographic database of systematic reviews and systematic review protocols on vaccines and immunisation compiled by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO) through their National Immunization Technical Advisory Groups (NITAG) resource centre (www.nitag-resource.org). Here the development of the database and a bibliometric review of its content is presented, describing trends in the publication of policy-relevant systematic reviews on vaccines and immunisation from 2008 to 2016. MATERIALS AND
methodsSearches were conducted in seven scientific databases according to a standardized search protocol, initially in 2014 with the most recent update in January 2017. Abstracts and titles were screened according to specific inclusion criteria. All included publications were coded into relevant categories based on a standardized protocol and subsequently analysed to look at trends in time, topic, area of focus, population and geographic location.
resultsAfter screening for inclusion criteria, 1285 systematic reviews were included in the database. While in 2008 there were only 34 systematic reviews on a vaccine-related topic, this increased to 322 in 2016. The most frequent pathogens/diseases studied were influenza, human papillomavirus and pneumococcus. There were several areas of duplication and overlap. DISCUSSION: As more systematic reviews are published it becomes increasingly time-consuming for decision-makers to identify relevant information among the ever-increasing volume available. The risk of duplication also increases, particularly given the current lack of coordination of systematic reviews on vaccine-related questions, both in terms of their commissioning and their execution. The SYSVAC database offers an accessible catalogue of vaccine-relevant systematic reviews with, where possible access or a link to the full-text.
conclusionsSYSVAC provides a freely searchable platform to identify existing vaccine-policy-relevant systematic reviews. Systematic reviews will need to be assessed adequately for each specific question and quality.
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Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.