Rate My Professor Edoardo Aromataris

Associate Professor Edoardo Aromataris serves as an Associate Professor in the School of Public Health within the College of Health at The University of Adelaide. He earned his PhD, BSc (Hons), and BSc from The University of Adelaide. Since 2011, he has been the Director of Synthesis Science at the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI), leading the expansion of JBI's international program of systematic review methodological development, which he initiated that year. In this role, he oversees advancements in evidence synthesis methodologies, including reviews of effects, umbrella reviews, and reviews of aetiology and risk factors. He previously served as Research Coordinator at JBI from 2011 to 2021. Aromataris is the founding Editor-in-Chief of JBI Evidence Synthesis, originally launched by The University of Adelaide in 2012 and now published by Wolters Kluwer, as well as the co-Deputy Director of the Adelaide GRADE Centre. He chairs the JBI Scientific Committee since its founding and has held positions such as Chair of the JBI Research Committee and member of various faculty committees. Additionally, he is editor of the JBI Manual for Evidence Synthesis and a member of the GRADE working group. His career includes extensive collaboration with organizations like Cancer Australia, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Victorian Government, NSW Department of Health, Queensland Health, the National Heart Foundation of Australia, the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency, and the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners to apply evidence synthesis for decision-making in health policy and practice.

Aromataris has authored and co-authored over 180 peer-reviewed papers, book chapters, and reports, with a substantial impact on evidence-based healthcare. Key publications include 'Systematic review or scoping review? Guidance for authors when choosing between a systematic or scoping review approach' (Munn et al., 2018, BMC Medical Research Methodology), cited over 13,900 times; 'Summarizing systematic reviews: methodological development, conduct and reporting of an umbrella review approach' (Aromataris et al., 2015, JBI Evidence Implementation); 'Methodological quality of case series studies: an introduction to the JBI critical appraisal tool' (Munn et al., 2020, JBI Evidence Synthesis); 'The systematic review: an overview' (Aromataris and Pearson, 2014, AJN The American Journal of Nursing); and 'Constructing a search strategy and searching for evidence' (Aromataris and Riitano, 2014, American Journal of Nursing). His research emphasizes best-practice conduct and reporting of evidence syntheses, publication ethics, peer review practices, and research question development to reduce research waste and promote trustworthy evidence for clinical practice and policy.