Authorship inequalities in global health research: the IeDEA Southern Africa collaboration.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The International epidemiology Databases to Evaluate AIDS conducts research in several regions, including in Southern Africa. We assessed authorship inequalities for the Southern African region, which is led by South African and Swiss investigators.

Methods

We analysed authorships of publications from 2007 to 2020 by gender, country income group, time and citation impact. We used 2020 World Bank categories to define income groups and the relative citation ratio (RCR) to assess citation impact. Authorship parasitism was defined as articles without authors from the countries where the study was conducted. A regression model examined the probability of different authorship positions.

Results

We included 313 articles. Of the 1064 contributing authors, 547 (51.4

SUBMITTER: Skrivankova VW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10729048 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature