Direct answer
Editorial Review, in this Policy, is limited to the following inspected scope. Documented search, title/abstract screening, full-text assessment, and independent final inclusion decisions. Editors retain final responsibility for editorial decisions and confidentiality. The answer carries the source boundaries forward and does not infer authority from a neighboring topic.
Policy
Keep the answer within the inspected source scope and make every operational step or conceptual relation explicit.
Do not use completeness of presentation as a substitute for evidence, review, or release.
Applied scope: Documented search, title/abstract screening, full-text assessment, and independent final inclusion decisions. Editors retain final responsibility for editorial decisions and confidentiality.
Definition and operating context
The canonical concept owner is agentic-publishing. This route may apply release; it cannot redefine or inherit the authority of its canonical owner.
This property may publish publishing protocols, editorial templates, release guidance. It must not publish duplicate research records or unlabelled machine authorship.
Evidence and exact locators
Cochrane Handbook, Chapter 4: Searching for and selecting studies — Sections 4.5, 4.6.3 and 4.6.4. Establishes: Documented search, title/abstract screening, full-text assessment, and independent final inclusion decisions.
Responsibilities in the Submission and Peer-Review Process — Responsibilities in the Submission and Peer-Review Process. Establishes: Editors retain final responsibility for editorial decisions and confidentiality.
What the evidence does not establish
The handbook governs systematic-review study selection, not a universal editorial workflow or machine reviewer.
The recommendation does not define an agentic review schema or prove review quality.
This route must not claim duplicate research records.
This route must not claim unlabelled machine authorship.
Related definitions and applications
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Questions this page can answer
What does Editorial Review mean in this bounded context?
Editorial Review, in this Policy, is limited to the following inspected scope. Documented search, title/abstract screening, full-text assessment, and independent final inclusion decisions. Editors retain final responsibility for editorial decisions and confidentiality. The answer carries the source boundaries forward and does not infer authority from a neighboring topic.
Which inspected sources support this policy answer?
Cochrane Handbook, Chapter 4: Searching for and selecting studies (version 6.5, updated March 2025), at Sections 4.5, 4.6.3 and 4.6.4, supports documented search, title/abstract screening, full-text assessment, and independent final inclusion decisions. Responsibilities in the Submission and Peer-Review Process (living recommendation inspected 2026-09-06), at Responsibilities in the Submission and Peer-Review Process, supports editors retain final responsibility for editorial decisions and confidentiality.
What does the evidence not establish?
The handbook governs systematic-review study selection, not a universal editorial workflow or machine reviewer. The recommendation does not define an agentic review schema or prove review quality. Property boundary: This route may apply release; it cannot redefine or inherit the authority of its canonical owner.
Which definition or canonical owner must be read first?
This page is the local agentic-publishing definition for its topic. Related applications may depend on it but may not silently redefine it.
What source, policy, implementation, or release change would require revision?
Re-evaluate this page when a cited source, locator, governing instrument, local implementation, or canonical definition changes. Publication also requires a matching exact-revision review and active canonical release.