Several systematic literature reviews (SLRs) have been published on many aspects of Software engineering (SE) in the last two decades. However, researchers are yet to evaluate the quality of those studies in order to determine the reliability of their findings. This work employed SLR method and performed automated search of studies published between 2012 and 2017 aiming at evaluating the quality of the recent SLRs published in SE. This paper adapted Dyb? and Dings?yr quality criteria using dichotomous scale of grad-ing to assess the quality of the primary studies in SLRs. A total of 15 of 53 primary studies have suitable recruitment strategy for their research aims, and 19 mentioned the control group (s) with wish their meth-ods were compared. All the 53 papers passed all the standard quality conditions. The quality of the SLRs are high with only very small percentage failing in three out of 11 quality criteria. The research methodol-ogies applied in their primary studies are comprehensive and were based on clear description of the con-text, thereby making their findings valid and reliable. The current SLRs in SE are of good quality but ad-equate consideration should be given to the relationship between the researchers and the participants.
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