Department of Orthopaedics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, 110029, India,
Arch Orthop Trauma Surg. 2014 May;134(5):619-22. doi: 10.1007/s00402-014-1975-y. Epub 2014 Mar 18.
Researches from the developing world contribute only a limited proportion to the total research output published in leading orthopedics journals. Some of them believe that there is substantial editorial bias against their work. We assessed the composition of the editorial boards of leading orthopedic journals.
The editorial boards of 18 leading orthopedic journals according to their impact factor were retrieved from their website. We evaluated in which countries the editorial board members were based and classified these countries using the World Bank income criteria.
Individuals from number of countries can be found on the editorial boards of the investigated journals, but most of them are based in high-income countries. While 1,302 of the 1,401 editorial board members are based in countries with a high income according to the World Bank criteria, 37 are based in an upper middle income, 2 in lower middle income and none in a low-income economy.
The percentage of editorial board members in leading orthopedic journals is dominated by high-income countries with serious underrepresentation from low-income countries.
发展中国家的研究人员在发表于领先的骨科期刊的总研究成果中仅占有限比例。他们中的一些人认为编辑对他们的工作存在实质性的偏见。我们评估了领先的骨科期刊编辑委员会的组成。
从他们的网站上检索了 18 种根据影响因子排名的领先骨科期刊的编辑委员会。我们评估了编辑委员会成员所在的国家，并根据世界银行的收入标准对这些国家进行了分类。
在调查期刊的编辑委员会中可以找到来自多个国家的人员，但他们大多数来自高收入国家。虽然根据世界银行的标准，1401 名编辑委员会成员中有 1302 名来自高收入国家，但有 37 名来自中高收入国家，2 名来自中低收入国家，没有来自低收入经济体的成员。
在领先的骨科期刊中，编辑委员会成员的比例主要由高收入国家主导，而来自低收入国家的代表性严重不足。
