Facilitator notes
The excerpt contains 14 planted issues, listed in practice-pack/facilitator-issue-key.csv with the related PRISMA item and severity. Remove that file from the public site if participants should not see it before the activity.
Points to draw out in the debrief
- Count inconsistency (38 in abstract, 80 − 42 = 38 in Method, 41 in Results) is a frequent and serious reviewer finding.
- “Prove” and “effective” are not supported by perception data and mixed results.
- Smith et al. (2025) is cited but missing from the reference list — a sign of an unverified or AI-suggested citation.
- Results and Discussion are paper-by-paper summaries; there is no synthesis, no appraisal and no limitations section.
- Ask participants to run the same checks on their own manuscript immediately afterwards.