Local and foreign authorship of maternal health interventional research in low- and middle-income countries: systematic
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Local and foreign authorship of maternal health interventional research in low- and middle-income countries: systematic mapping of publications 2000–2012 Matthew F. Chersich1,2,3*, Duane Blaauw2, Mari Dumbaugh4,5, Loveday Penn-Kekana2,6, Ashar Dhana2, Siphiwe Thwala2, Leon Bijlmakers7, Emily Vargas8,9, Elinor Kern2, Francisco Becerra-Posada10, Josephine Kavanagh2, Priya Mannava11, Langelihle Mlotshwa2,5, Victor Becerril-Montekio9, Katharine Footman6 and Helen Rees1,12
Abstract Background: Researchers in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are under-represented in scientific literature. Mapping of authorship of articles can provide an assessment of data ownership and research capacity in LMICs over time and identify variations between different settings. Methods: Systematic mapping of maternal health interventional research in LMICs from 2000 to 2012, comparing country of study and of affiliation of first authors. Studies on health systems or promotion; community-based activities; and haemorrhage, hypertension, HIV/STIs and malaria were included. Following review of 35,078 titles and abstracts, 2292 full-text publications were included. Data ownership was measured by the proportion of articles with an LMIC lead author (author affiliated with an LMIC institution). Results: The total number of papers led by an LMIC author rose from 45.0/year in 2000–2003 to 98.0/year in 2004– 2007, but increased only slightly thereafter to 113.1/year in 2008–2012. In the same periods, the proportion of papers led by a local author was 58.4 %, 60.8 % and 60.1 %, respectively. Data ownership varies markedly between countries. A quarter of countries led more than 75 % of their research; while in 10 countries, under 25 % of publications had a local first author. Researchers at LMIC institutions led 56.6 % (1297) of all papers, but only 26.8 % of systematic reviews (65/243), 29.9 % of modelling studies (44/147), and 33.2 % of articles in journals with an Impact Factor ≥5 (61/184). Sub-Saharan Africa authors led 54.2 % (538/993) of studies in the region, while 73.4 % did in Latin America and the Caribbean (223/304). Authors affiliated with United States (561) and United Kingdom (207) institutions together account for a third of publications. Around two thirds of USAID and European Union funded studies had high-income country leads, twice as many as that of Wellcome Trust and Rockefeller Foundation. (Continued on next page)
* Correspondence: [email protected] 1 Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa 2 Centre for Health Policy/MRC Health Policy Research Group, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Full list of author information is available at the end of the article © 2016 The Author(s). Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits u
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