World Journal of Meta-Analysis (WJMA, World J Meta-Anal) is a high-quality, open-access academic journal that employs a single-blind peer-review process. The journal focuses on publishing practical meta-analysis and systematic reviews that are innovative, novel, and practical in the fields of clinical medicine. The types of articles published in WJMA include Meta-analysis, Editorial, Minireview, Review, Meta-regression, Systematic review, and Evidence-based medicine. All submissions must comply with academic norms and ethical requirements. WJMA is edited and published by the Baishideng Publishing Group.

The primary aim of WJMA is to provide scholars and readers from various fields of clinical medicine with a platform for publishing high-quality meta-analysis and systematic reviews. In order to ensure the quality, fairness, and transparency of publication, WJMA has implemented a variety of measures, as follows: 

1 Academic norms and ethical requirements. Adherence to both academic norms and ethical requirements is closely related to peer review and first-decision making for the manuscript. Authors are recommended to prepare their articles according to the appropriate international publication recommendations, including the PRISMA 2009 Checklist. For all articles involving human studies, organ transplantations, and/or animal experiments, before their acceptance, author(s) must provide the related formal ethics documents that were reviewed and approved by their local ethical review committee. For full guidelines for authors, please visit: https://www.wjgnet.com/bpg/gerinfo/204.

2 Peer-review process. Articles published in WJMA must undergo rigorous external, single-blind peer review. For the full peer-review process, please visit: https://www.wjgnet.com/bpg/gerinfo/241.

3 Designation of co-first authors and/or co-corresponding authors. Designation of co-first authors and/or co-corresponding authors is permitted. For the policy of allowing co-first authors and co-corresponding authors who made equal contribution to a manuscript, please visit: https://www.wjgnet.com/bpg/GerInfo/310.

4 Publication of innovative original articles. WJMA's acceptance of a manuscript for publication is based on its novelty, innovativeness, data accuracy, image reliability, clear language expression, and ethical requirements. 

5 Disclosure of documents related to the article. The peer review report, author response to the peer review report, biostatistics review certificate, copyright license agreement, institutional ethics committee approval document, informed consent document(s), conflict-of-interest statement, CrossCheck detection report, corresponding author(s) personal ORCID number(s), funding information, language editing certificate, and other relevant documents will be published online along with the article to allow for an open and transparent publishing process.

WJMA mainly publishes articles reporting research results and findings obtained through meta-analysis and systematic review in a wide range of areas, including medicine, pharmacy, preventive medicine, stomatology, nursing, medical imaging, and laboratory medicine.