African authorship on African papers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
African authorship on African papers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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DOI：
10.1136/bmjgh-2020-004612
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发表时间：
2021-03
影响因子：
8.1
通讯作者：
Wallis LA
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文献类型：
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作者：
Naidoo AV;Hodkinson P;Lai King L;Wallis LA
由于没有已知的治疗方法或疫苗，在COVID-19大流行期间，实时分享信息和经验对于提高医疗保健标准至关重要。病例在世界范围内迅速增加，医学出版物也是如此。1 .国际媒体和科学界报道，随着病例在非洲等资源匮乏地区开始上升，对脆弱、负担过重的卫生保健系统的能力表示严重关切。2需要非洲的声音和研究来指导当地的大流行应对措施。但是，从历史上看，非洲作者在与非洲大陆疾病负担相关的医学文献中代表性不足4-6；在2019冠状病毒病大流行期间，很可能发生了同样的情况。我们的目的是调查非洲作者在非洲发表研究和评论COVID-19的代表性。使用MeSH（医学搜索标题）术语和其他关键字进行系统检索，以确定2020年1月1日至2020年9月30日期间在PubMed中检索的有关COVID-19的文章。虽然我们遵循PRISMA（系统评价和荟萃分析的首选报告项目）方法，但仅包括按影响因子排名的前五名医学综合医学和前五名全球卫生期刊上发表的文章。重复的文章，不是来自选定的期刊或指定时间段以外的文章被删除。其余文章由两位作者在标题、摘要和全文层面进行筛选，以确保内容与COVID-19相关。第三位作者解决了关于纳入的任何分歧。进行亚组分析以评估包含明确与非洲或任何非洲国家相关内容的文章数量，以及样本中代表非洲主要隶属关系的文章和作者数量。虽然我们认识到作者可能以各种方式自我识别，但我们选择了主要列出的隶属关系作为一致且易于识别的指标。本综述共纳入了2196篇与COVID-19相关的文献（表1A，图1），其中列出了9222位作者（表1B）。其中，只有94篇（4.3%）文章包含与非洲或特定非洲国家相关的内容，292名（3.2%）作者表示主要隶属于非洲。每篇文章的平均作者总数为4.2人，其中平均0.13人（3.1%）是非洲人。研究发现，高收入国家的卫生研究人员数量是低收入国家的40倍以上（其中许多在非洲大陆），因此，非洲在疫情期间对全球证据的贡献仍然很低也就不足为奇了。在非洲内容的文章中，有619位作者；这些作者中只有210人（33.9%）有非洲血统。有
With no known cure or vaccine, sharing of information and experiences in real-time became imperative to improving the standard of medical care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Cases rapidly surged worldwide, and so too did medical publications. 1 The international media and scientific community reported grave concerns about the capacity of fragile, overburdened healthcare systems as cases began to rise in low-resource settings (LRS), such as those in Africa. 2 3 African voices and research are needed to guide the local pandemic response. But, historically, African authors have been underrepresented in medical literature related to the burden of disease on their continent 4–6; it may well be the case that the same has happened during the COVID-19 pandemic. 7 We aimed to investigate the representation of African authors publishing research and commenting on COVID-19 in Africa. A systematic search was conducted using MeSH (medical search heading) terms and other keywords to identify articles about COVID-19 indexed in PubMed between 1 January 2020 and 30 September 2020. While we followed PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) methodology, only articles published in the top five medical general medical and top five global health journals, as ranked by impact factors, were included. Articles that were duplicates, not from the selected journals or outside the specified time period were removed. Remaining articles were screened at the title, abstract and fulltext level by two authors to ensure content was related to COVID-19. A third author resolved any disagreements regarding inclusion. Subgroup analyses were performed to assess the number of articles containing content explicitly related to Africa or any African country, and the number of articles and authors with African primary affiliations represented in the sample. While we recognise that authors may self-identify in various ways, we chose primary listed affiliation as a consistent and easy to identify indicator. A total of 2196 articles related to COVID-19 were included in this review (table 1A, figure 1), with 9222 authors listed across them (table 1B). Of these, just 94 articles (4.3%) contained content related to Africa or a specific African country, and there were 292 (3.2%) authors indicating an African primary affiliation. The mean number of authors per article was 4.2 overall, with a mean 0.13 (3.1%) of these authors being African. Given that high-income countries have been found to have upwards of 40 times the number of health researchers than in low-income countries 8—many of which are on the African continent—it is unsurprising that African contributions to the global body of evidence during the pandemic remain low. Across articles with African content, there were 619 authors; only 210 (33.9%) of these authors had an African affiliation. There were
影响因子：
7.7
作者：
Kelaher, Margaret;Ng, Lye;Rahadi, Arie
通讯作者：
Rahadi, Arie