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I have some beef with the methodology for excluding analyses from the lit review. If authors being from “obscure institutions” is a problem, then so too should authors employed by companies that manufacture aspartame or funded by companies that manufacture aspartame. 2 of the 3 reviews that the author considers very high quality have this problem.

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Not sure what their criterion is for "obscure institutions", but as a professor from a small, peripheral university that almost no one knows outside my own country, but who has managed to achieve an international reputation in my field (not nutrition-related); that does rub me the wrong way, to be honest.

There's already plenty of unconscious bias around (I've had experiences of people using my contributions and citing some followup paper from Google or Stanford rather than the paper where the contribution was actually made) without actively legitimizing it.

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