A bibliometric analysis of geographic disparities in the authorship of leading medical journals.

ABSTRACT:

Background

It has previously been reported that authors from developing countries are underrepresented in medical journals. Here, we aimed to build a comprehensive landscape of the geographical representation in medical research publications.

Methods

We collected bibliometric data of original research articles (n = 10,558) published between 2010 and 2019 in five leading medical journals and geolocated these by the institute of the corresponding authors. We introduced two simple metrics, the International Research Impact and the Domestic Self-Citation Index, to assess publishing and citing patterns by cities and countries.

Results

We show that only 32 countries published more than 10 publications in 10 years equaling 98.9% of all publications. English-speaking countrie

SUBMITTER: Bruck O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10713520 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature