Tutarel Oktay
Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
BMC Med Res Methodol. 2004 Jan 20;4:3. doi: 10.1186/1471-2288-4-3.
Researchers from the developing world contribute only a limited proportion to the total research output published in leading medical education journals. Some of them believe that there is a substantial editorial bias against their work. To obtain an objective basis for further discussion the present study was designed to assess the composition of the editorial boards of leading medical education journals.
The editorial boards of the three leading medical education journals according to their impact factor were retrieved from the respective January issue of the year 2003. We evaluated in which countries the editorial board members were based and classified these countries using the World Bank income criteria.
Individuals from a number of countries can be found on the editorial boards of the investigated journals, but most of them are based in high-income countries.
The percentage of editorial board members which are based in developing world countries is higher for the leading medical education journals than in most of their psychiatry and general medicine counterparts. But it is still too low.
来自发展中世界的研究人员在顶尖医学教育期刊发表的全部研究成果中所占比例有限。他们中的一些人认为，这些期刊在编辑方面对他们的工作存在严重偏见。为了获得进一步讨论的客观依据，本研究旨在评估顶尖医学教育期刊编辑委员会的组成情况。
根据影响因子从2003年1月各期检索出三大顶尖医学教育期刊的编辑委员会。我们评估了编辑委员会成员所在的国家，并使用世界银行的收入标准对这些国家进行分类。
在所调查期刊的编辑委员会中可以找到来自许多国家的人员，但其中大多数位于高收入国家。
顶尖医学教育期刊编辑委员会成员中来自发展中世界国家的比例高于大多数同类的精神病学和普通医学期刊。但这一比例仍然过低。
