Comprehensive Revision of Systematic Review

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Budget / Salary$250–750
TypeFreelance project
LocationRemote
Posted59 minutes ago
I am seeking an experienced systematic-review researcher to comprehensively revise and finalize a manuscript and its supplementary files. The work must follow PRISMA 2020 and report only procedures that have actually been completed and verified.

Scope of work:

1. Verify and standardize the review period as 2016–2025 throughout the title, abstract, Methods, Results, tables, PRISMA diagram, and supplementary files.

2. Verify the searches in PubMed/MEDLINE, Embase, and Web of Science. Provide:

* Exact database-specific search strings;
* Search dates and limits;
* Search histories or exports;
* Records identified from each database; and
* Confirmation that eligible 2025 publications were systematically searched.

If the original searches cannot be verified, they must be rerun and documented. Search details or counts must not be invented.

3. Reconcile the study corpus. Current working figures are:

* 64 numbered reports;
* 1 duplicate removed;
* 63 unique reports;
* 4 excluded reports; and
* 59 potentially included studies.

These figures must be independently verified rather than automatically accepted.

4. Retrieve and assess the six reports currently available only as abstracts or partial texts. Update their eligibility, extracted data, and quality assessment as appropriate.

5. Prepare a complete PRISMA 2020 flow diagram showing:

* Records identified from each database;
* Duplicates removed;
* Records screened;
* Full texts assessed;
* Full-text exclusions with reasons; and
* Final number of included studies.

6. Create one comprehensive included-studies table covering every final included study, with at least:

* First author;
* Publication year;
* Country;
* Sample size;
* Study design;
* Clinical domain or outcome;
* MRI sequences;
* Segmentation method;
* Validation method; and
* Other variables relevant to the review objectives.

7. Complete an independent second-reviewer RQS assessment. The second assessment must be performed independently by another qualified reviewer—not by the same person rescoring the studies. Please provide:

* Separate item-level scores from Reviewer 1 and Reviewer 2;
* A disagreement and adjudication record;
* Final consensus scores; and
* Inter-rater agreement where appropriate.

8. Recalculate and revise all Results, tables, figures, percentages, and narrative statements after the final corpus and RQS scores are confirmed.

9. Ensure that one confirmed timeframe and one confirmed number of included studies appear consistently across the manuscript, PRISMA diagram, extraction table, RQS workbook, and supplements.

10. Remove journal-specific placeholders or MDPI/Biomedicines template elements unless a target journal is later confirmed. Do not include wording that guarantees acceptance or publication.

Required deliverables:

* Clean, finalized Word manuscript;
* Word version with tracked changes;
* Complete reproducible search-strategy appendix;
* Database search records and count-reconciliation sheet;
* PRISMA 2020 flow diagram and checklist;
* Comprehensive included-studies table;
* Final RQS workbook containing both reviewers’ scores and consensus results;
* Updated supplementary materials; and
* A response matrix explaining how every requested issue was resolved.

Acceptance criteria:

* All numerical values are internally consistent and traceable to source records.
* No incomplete placeholders or unverified methodological claims remain.
* The Methods describe only procedures genuinely completed.
* The second RQS review is demonstrably independent.
* The manuscript and all supplementary files form one finalized, consistent submission package.

Please respond with your systematic-review and RQS experience, database access, availability of an independent second reviewer, proposed timeline, total fee, and the source documents you require before starting.
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