Knowledge syntheses in medical education: Meta-research examining author gender, geographic location, and institutional affiliation.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Authors of knowledge syntheses make many subjective decisions during their review process. Those decisions, which are guided in part by author characteristics, can impact the conduct and conclusions of knowledge syntheses, which assimilate much of the evidence base in medical education. To better understand the evidence base, this study describes the characteristics of knowledge synthesis authors, focusing on gender, geography, and institution.

Methods

In 2020, the authors conducted meta-research to examine authors of 963 knowledge syntheses published between 1999 and 2019 in 14 core medical education journals.

Results

The authors identified 4,110 manuscript authors across all authorship positions. On average there were 4.3 authors per knowledge synthesis

SUBMITTER: Maggio LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8547645 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature