Description: An open letter from Pavel Zhelnov to editors of medical journals about his Russian translation of the PRISMA 2020 Statement.
This is Pavel Zhelnov, an independent researcher from Saint Petersburg, Russia. I hereby inform you that I have embarked on translating the PRISMA 2020 Statement, that was published on September 14th, 2020, as a MetaArXiv preprint , into Russian.
Disclaimer: The PRISMA 2020 team, Cochrane Russia, other organizations and persons were never involved in creation of this Letter and never endorsed it. This Letter and my crowdfunding campaign are my sole responsibility.
Since 2009, there has been no published Russian translation of key PRISMA articles (just the translated checklist and the flow diagram have been published), while Russian-speaking presence in evidence synthesis has been remarkably low. These shortcomings have motivated my involvement in the PRISMA 2020 development . However, I am doing this job as a self-employed researcher with no institutional affiliations and have no funding for this research (nor did I ever have). This is why I am launching a crowdfundi