Representation of authors and editors from poor countries: Partnerships may well be unequal

Anya, Ike

doi:10.1136/bmj.329.7457.110-a

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“…Rather, research occurs, but it is not converted into papers as often as it is in high income countries (Fig 4b). Our data is consistent with previous qualitative findings that suggest paper conversion happens at a lower rate in developing countries because of a lack of resources, lack of stability, and policy choices [35,[39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46].…”

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“…It is well known that developing countries are underrepresented in the research world [35][36][37], and increasing research output from developing countries may be beneficial to their economic development [38]. It has been suggested that low research output stems from high publication costs, lack of institutional support, lack of external funding, bias, high teaching burden, and language issues [35,[39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46]. The open access movement promises to overcome some of these issues by making research widely available to researchers that do not have institutional support [34].…”

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PreprintMatch: A tool for preprint to publication detection shows global inequities in scientific publication

Eckmann

Bandrowski

2023

PLoS ONE

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Preprints, versions of scientific manuscripts that precede peer review, are growing in popularity. They offer an opportunity to democratize and accelerate research, as they have no publication costs or a lengthy peer review process. Preprints are often later published in peer-reviewed venues, but these publications and the original preprints are frequently not linked in any way. To this end, we developed a tool, PreprintMatch, to find matches between preprints and their corresponding published papers, if they exist. This tool outperforms existing techniques to match preprints and papers, both on matching performance and speed. PreprintMatch was applied to search for matches between preprints (from bioRxiv and medRxiv), and PubMed. The preliminary nature of preprints offers a unique perspective into scientific projects at a relatively early stage, and with better matching between preprint and paper, we explored questions related to research inequity. We found that preprints from low income countries are published as peer-reviewed papers at a lower rate than high income countries (39.6% and 61.1%, respectively), and our data is consistent with previous work that cite a lack of resources, lack of stability, and policy choices to explain this discrepancy. Preprints from low income countries were also found to be published quicker (178 vs 203 days) and with less title, abstract, and author similarity to the published version compared to high income countries. Low income countries add more authors from the preprint to the published version than high income countries (0.42 authors vs 0.32, respectively), a practice that is significantly more frequent in China compared to similar countries. Finally, we find that some publishers publish work with authors from lower income countries more frequently than others.

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PreprintMatch: A tool for preprint to publication detection shows global inequities in scientific publication

Eckmann

Bandrowski

2023

PLoS ONE

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“…While there is little empirical evidence on the causes, sidelining of local researchers could be attributed to limited financial contribution by African governments to research and innovation programs (Anya, 2004; CAAST-Net Plus, 2016). For fair collaborations to be realized, it is critical that the statements of intent made by African governments to support research be backed by co-investment.…”

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Experts’ Perspectives on Key Ethical Issues Associated With HIV Phylogenetics as Applied in HIV Transmission Dynamics Research

Mutenherwa

Wassenaar

Oliveira

2018

Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics

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The use of phylogenetics in HIV molecular epidemiology has considerably increased our ability to understand the origin, spread, and characteristics of HIV epidemics. Despite its potential to advance knowledge on HIV transmission dynamics, the ethical issues associated with HIV molecular epidemiology have received minimal attention. In-depth interviews were conducted with scientists from diverse backgrounds to explore their perspectives on ethical issues associated with phylogenetic analysis of HIV genetic data as applied to HIV transmission dynamics studies. The Emanuel framework was used as the analytical framework. Favorable risk-benefit ratio and informed consent were the most invoked ethical principles and fair participant selection the least. Fear of loss of privacy and disclosure of HIV transmission were invariably cited as key ethical concerns. As HIV sequence data become increasingly available, comprehensive guidelines should be developed to guide its access, sharing and use, cognizant of the potential harms that may result.

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Representation of authors and editors from poor countries: Partnerships may well be unequal

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PreprintMatch: A tool for preprint to publication detection shows global inequities in scientific publication

PreprintMatch: A tool for preprint to publication detection shows global inequities in scientific publication

Experts’ Perspectives on Key Ethical Issues Associated With HIV Phylogenetics as Applied in HIV Transmission Dynamics Research

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