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Focus & Scope
The IJSSR is a double-blind, peer-reviewed, fully open-access journal that provides an advanced platform for the publication of rigorously conducted, methodologically sound systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and evidence syntheses that contribute to the body of knowledge and promote evidence-based decision-making across academia, policy, and practice.
The IJSSR welcomes original articles, protocols, methodological papers, and short communications in areas including but not limited to:
- Health and Medicine: Clinical interventions, diagnostic accuracy, and health systems research.
- Public Health and Policy: Population-level interventions, health equity, and environmental health.
- Education and Social Sciences: Pedagogical interventions, curriculum evaluations, and social policy reviews.
- Technology and Engineering: Software/systematic review automation, AI-assisted screening, and engineering design reviews.
- Methodology: Novel or comparative methods for literature searching, bias assessment, data synthesis, living reviews, and network meta-analysis.
- Reporting and Ethics: Guidelines development, publication bias, transparency, and reproducibility in evidence synthesis.