Publishing a protocol for your systematic or scoping review
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Publishing a protocol is not mandatory if you are writing a review, but it is increasingly considered best practice. The PRISMA statement includes a checklist to support the development of protocols and you may wish to consider publishing a protocol on one of the sites listed below.
BMC is an open access publisher. A number of BMC journals publish research protocols. The journals Systematic Reviews and BMJ Open publish protocols for systematic reviews and other categories of review.