Authorship ethics in global health research partnerships between researchers from low or middle income countries and high income countries
Authorship ethics in global health research partnerships between researchers from low or middle income countries and high income countries
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DOI：
10.1186/1472-6939-15-42
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发表时间：
2014-05-28
影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
Master, Zubin
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作者：
Smith, Elise;Hunt, Matthew;Master, Zubin
背景资料：在过去二十年中，促进中低收入国家的研究人员与高收入国家的研究人员建立合作伙伴关系，是全球卫生研究的一个重大发展。理想情况下，这些伙伴关系将导致更公平的合作，包括分担研究责任和奖励。虽然合作伙伴关系的举措已经显示出希望，并吸引了越来越多的兴趣，有一些学术辩论，关于作者的信用在这些partnerships.Discussion的公平分配：在本文中，我们确定了四个关键的著作权问题相关的全球健康研究，并讨论其伦理和实际意义。首先，我们认为，作者指南可能不足以适用于全球卫生研究，因为它要求作者撰写或大幅修改手稿。由于大多数在全球卫生领域享有国际声誉的期刊都是用英语撰写的，这将系统地、不公正地排除非英语研究人员，即使他们对研究项目做出了重大贡献。第二，目前关于作者身份顺序的指南并没有解决或减轻由于高收入和中低收入国家研究人员之间的权力差异而可能在全球卫生研究中发生的不公平做法。它也没有充分认识到“技术任务”，例如征聘当地参与者。第三，我们考虑潜在的真实的或感知的编辑偏见，有利于著名的西方研究人员的医学科学期刊，并促进错位的信用和/或声望作者的风险。最后，我们探讨了如何不同的文化习俗和期望的作者可能会产生来自低收入和高收入国家的研究人员之间的冲突，并有助于不道德的作者的做法。为了有效地解决这些问题，我们建议：1）进一步开展关于全球健康研究中作者身份的实证和概念研究; 2）提高对全球健康研究中作者身份问题的认识; 3）制定具体的实践标准，以反映全球健康研究中作者身份的相关考虑。通过审查生物伦理学和全球卫生文献，以及审查关于伦理著作权的指导文件，我们确定了一系列有关中低收入国家和高收入国家研究人员合作伙伴关系中的作者身份的问题。我们提出了几项建议来解决这些问题。
Background: Over the past two decades, the promotion of collaborative partnerships involving researchers from low and middle income countries with those from high income countries has been a major development in global health research. Ideally, these partnerships would lead to more equitable collaboration including the sharing of research responsibilities and rewards. While collaborative partnership initiatives have shown promise and attracted growing interest, there has been little scholarly debate regarding the fair distribution of authorship credit within these partnerships.Discussion: In this paper, we identify four key authorship issues relevant to global health research and discuss their ethical and practical implications. First, we argue that authorship guidance may not adequately apply to global health research because it requires authors to write or substantially revise the manuscript. Since most journals of international reputation in global health are written in English, this would systematically and unjustly exclude non-English speaking researchers even if they have substantially contributed to the research project. Second, current guidance on authorship order does not address or mitigate unfair practices which can occur in global health research due to power differences between researchers from high and low-middle income countries. It also provides insufficient recognition of "technical tasks" such as local participant recruitment. Third, we consider the potential for real or perceived editorial bias in medical science journals in favour of prominent western researchers, and the risk of promoting misplaced credit and/or prestige authorship. Finally, we explore how diverse cultural practices and expectations regarding authorship may create conflict between researchers from low-middle and high income countries and contribute to unethical authorship practices. To effectively deal with these issues, we suggest: 1) undertaking further empirical and conceptual research regarding authorship in global health research; 2) raising awareness on authorship issues in global health research; and 3) developing specific standards of practice that reflect relevant considerations of authorship in global health research.Summary: Through review of the bioethics and global health literatures, and examination of guidance documents on ethical authorship, we identified a set of issues regarding authorship in collaborative partnerships between researchers from low-middle income countries and high income countries. We propose several recommendations to address these concerns.