It is with specific interest that we have read the recent paper “Skeletal muscle functional
and structural adaptations after eccentric overload flywheel resistance training:
a systematic review and meta-analysis” published in Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport.
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The reason being that we registered a very similar protocol for a systematic review
and meta-analysis at PROSPERO on 8 May 2015 (http://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/display_record.asp?ID=CRD42015020337), which is now under review. Such overlap is unfortunate and could have been avoided
if the authors had registered their protocol following the guidelines of the Preferred
Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses Protocols (PRISMA-P)
- Maroto-Izquierdo S.
- García-López D.
- Fernandez-Gonzalo R.
- et al.
Skeletal muscle functional and structural adaptations after eccentric overload flywheel
resistance training: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
J Sci Med Sport. 2017; 20https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsams.2017.03.004
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and the PRISMA statement.
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The lack of a protocol registration preceding a systematic review and meta-analysis
is problematic, as it increases the possibility for research duplication, and thus
research waste, as individual groups may unknowingly end up performing almost identical
systematic reviews.
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Such issue have been raised by members of our group in the sports medicine literature
before.
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: September 09, 2017
Accepted:
September 4,
2017
Received in revised form:
August 30,
2017
Received:
June 4,
2017
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