Publication practices of sub-Saharan African Cochrane authors: a bibliometric study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Cochrane Africa (https://africa.cochrane.org/) aims to increase Cochrane reviews addressing high priority questions in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Researchers residing in SSA, despite often drawing on Cochrane methods, training or resources, conduct and publish systematic reviews outside of Cochrane. Our objective was to investigate the extent to which Cochrane authors from SSA publish Cochrane and non-Cochrane reviews.

Methods

We conducted a bibliometric study of systematic reviews and overviews of systematic reviews from SSA, first by identifying SSA Cochrane authors, then retrieving their first and last author systematic reviews and overviews from PubMed (2008 to April 2019) and using descriptive analyses to investigate the country of origin, types of reviews a

SUBMITTER: Mbuagbaw L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8479947 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature