Authorship diversity among systematic reviews in eyes and vision.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The inclusion of authors from diverse backgrounds and with different lived experiences is critical to ensuring the questions addressed in systematic reviews (SRs), as well as the subsequent conclusions and recommendations made, are representative of the global community.

Objective

To assess the gender and geographic diversity of authors among all Cochrane SRs in eyes and vision as compared with a random sample of non-Cochrane SRs of interventions in the field of eyes and vision.

Design

The Cochrane Eyes and Vision US Satellite maintains a database of SRs in the field of eyes and vision. We selected all (n = 313) eyes and vision intervention SRs published in The Cochrane Library and a random sample of 313 eyes and vision intervention SRs published elsewhere

SUBMITTER: Qureshi R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7450569 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature