Article placement order in rheumatology journals: a content analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To analyse variables associated with article placement order in serial rheumatology journals.

Design

Content analysis.

Setting

Original articles published in seven rheumatology journals from 2013 to 2018.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

The following data were extracted from 6787 articles: order number of article in issue, gender of first and last author, geographical region, industry funding, research design and disease category. Cumulative density function plots were used to determine whether article placement distribution was different from the expected distribution. ORs for articles published in the first three places of an issue compared with the last three places were calculated. Altmetric Score and downloads were meta-analysed.

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SUBMITTER: Stewart S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7304827 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature