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Objective To analyze the retrieval of master and doctorial dissertations entitledsystematic review/meta analysis in domestic universities of traditional Chinese medicine. Methods Master and doctorial dissertations entitledsystematic review/meta analysis in domestic universities of traditional Chinese medicine retrieved from China Dissertation Full-text Database were analyzed using Excel and SPSS 17. 0,respectively. Results Of the 423 master and doctorial dissertations included in this study,71. 9% were retrieved from both Chinese and English databases, 27. 7% were retrieved from Chinese databases,82. 8% were retrieved from two or more Chinese databases,54. 1% were retrieved from two or more English databases. The most frequently retrieved Chinese database was CKNI, followed by VIP, CBM and Wanfang. The most frequently retrieved English database was PubMed, followed by Cochrane Library, EMBASE and OVID. Conclusion The low use of traditional Chinese medicine databases is the main prob-lem in retrieval of master and doctorial dissertations entitledsystematic review/meta analysis in domestic univer-sities of traditional Chinese medicine. No significant difference is found in retrieved doctorial dissertations and mas-ter dissertations between 211and non-211 universities of traditional Chinese medicine.