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- relevance to scope of the Cochrane Review Group (CRG) – in situations where a CRG editorial team considers a proposed title to be potentially important but outside the scope of their group, contact the Network Associate Editor. This includes all Methodology Reviews which should be handled by the Methodology Review Group only;
- duplication of or overlap with existing reviews (also see Overlapping scope: editorial management);
- skills and experience of the review author team across content, methodology, and statistics; and
language ability (see Managing expectations: what does Cochrane expect of authors, and what can authors expect of Cochrane?).
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