Hi Jon,
You can’t know unless you are the managing editor or the author of the review. Cochrane reviews can go through several rounds of internal review until the editorial team is satisfied with the quality of the review. Also, now Cochrane has moved to a publish when ready model, where once a review is entered in the system as ready for publishing, it gets published a few hours later in the CDSR.
So for you to get the information you are after, either you have get a close working relationship with each managing editor in the Cochrane review groups or forge an official relationship between Trip and Cochrane so you are notified on a regular basis.
Of course, I may be completely wrong, but that’s the way I am seeing the situation.
Hope this helps.
Ahmed
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Subject: Identifying Cochrane SRs before they're published
I'm trying to find out if there's a way of identifying Cochrane reviews that are near publication - perhaps 1-3 months
away.
The protocol has been suggested but there appears to be little ability to predict when a review is published based on the protocol - but I'll happy to hear otherwise.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.