Institutional Affiliations Of Authors Research Articles

Authorship of Publications Supported by NCI-Funded Grants Involving Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Scientific publication is an important tool for knowledge dissemination and career advancement, but authors affiliated with institutions in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are historically underrepresented on publications. To assess the country income level distribution of author affiliations for publications resulting from National Cancer Institute (NCI)-supported extramural grants between 2015 and 2019, with international collaborating institutions exclusively in 1 or more LMICs. This cross-sectional study assessed authorship on publications resulting from NCI-funded grants between October 1, 2015, and September 30, 2019. Grants with collaborators in LMICs were identified in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Query/View/Report and linked to publications using Dimensions for NIH, published between 2011 and 2020. Statistical analysis was performed from May 2021 to July 2022. Author institutional affiliation was used to classify author country and related income level as defined by the World Bank. Relative citation ratio and Altmetric data from Dimensions for NIH were used to compare citation impact measures using the Wilcoxon rank sum test. In this cross-sectional study, 159 grants were awarded to US institutions with collaborators in LMICs, and 5 grants were awarded directly to foreign institutions. These 164 grants resulted in 2428 publications, of which 1242 (51%) did not include any authors affiliated with an institution in an LMIC. In addition, 1884 (78%) and 2009 (83%) publications had a first or last author, respectively, affiliated with a high-income country (HIC). Publications with HIC-affiliated last authors also demonstrated greater citation impact compared with publications with LMIC-affiliated last authors as measured by relative citation ratios and Altmetric Attention Scores; publications with HIC-affiliated first authors also had higher Altmetric Attention Scores. This cross-sectional study suggests that LMIC-affiliated authors were underrepresented on publications resulting from NCI-funded grants involving LMICs. It is critical to promote equitable scientific participation by LMIC institutions in cancer research, including through current and planned programs led by the NCI.

Expression of Concern. Shuangxi Wang, Jian Xu, Ping Song, Benoit Viollet, and Ming-Hui Zou. InVivo Activation of AMP-Activated Protein Kinase Attenuates Diabetes-Enhanced Degradation of GTP Cyclohydrolase I. Diabetes 2009;58:1893-1901. DOI: 10.2337/db09-0267. PMID: 19528375. PMCID: PMC2712774.

On the basis of the recommendation of the American Diabetes Association's (ADA's) Panel on Ethical Scientific Programs (ESP), the ADA, the publisher of Diabetes, is issuing this expression of concern to alert readers to the possible republication of images presented in the above-cited article. In particular, the GTPCH I panel in Fig. 2A, the β-actin panel in Fig. 2A, and the GTPCH I panel in Fig. 3A of this article are unexpectedly similar to the p67, β-actin, and Nox2 panels, respectively, of Fig. 6C of the now-retracted 2016 article cited below: Hu M, Lui B. Resveratrol via activation of LKB1-AMPK signaling suppresses oxidative stress to prevent endothelial dysfunction in diabetic mice. Clin Exp Hypertens 2016;38:381-387. DOI: 10.3109/10641963.2015.1131288. PMID: 27149559. Retraction in: Clin Exp Hypertens 2021;43:801. DOI: 10.1080/10641963.2018.1475654 In addition, the ESP has noted that within the article, the AMPK panel in Fig. 1A, the eNOS panel in Fig. 2A, and the β-actin panel in Fig. 5A, with adjustments to aspect ratios, also appear to be unexpectedly similar. In light of these concerns, the ADA has asked the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, the corresponding author's institutional affiliation at the time the study was conducted, to investigate this matter. Diabetes is a member journal of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) (publicationethics.org). As such, the editors of the journal and the ESP refer to COPE's guidelines and recommendations when reviewing such matters.

Abstract 4186: Underrepresentation of low- and middle-income country affiliated authors in NCI-supported cancer research

Abstract Introduction: We conducted a bibliometric analysis to assess authorship of recent publications involving collaborations in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) supported by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Methods: We identified active NCI grants awarded directly to LMIC institutions or to US institutions with a collaborator site or sites exclusively in LMICs between 2015-2019 in NIH Query View Report (QVR). Grants were linked to resulting publications using Dimensions for NIH. Because grants may have been active in 2015 while beginning in earlier years, we analyzed any linked publications from 2011 to 2020. Publications with missing author information were excluded. Author institutional affiliation was used to classify author country income level as defined by the World Bank. Authors with multiple institutional affiliations from a high-income country (HIC) and LMIC were classified as such. Relative citation ratio (RCR) and Altmetric data from Dimensions were used to compare citation impact measures using the Wilcoxon rank sum test. Results: NCI funded 159 grants to US institutions exclusively with LMIC collaborators and five awards directly to institutions in LMICs from 2015 to 2019, resulting in 2,428 publications between 2011 and 2020, of which 49% had at least one author affiliated with an LMIC institution. Of all publications, 78% and 83% had a first and last author with high-income country (HIC) affiliation, respectively. Publications with HIC-affiliated last authors had significantly higher median RCR and Altmetric attention scores than publications with LMIC-affiliated last authors (p=0.0134 and p=0.0004, respectively). Publications with HIC-affiliated first authors had significantly higher Altmetric scores than publications with LMIC-affiliated first authors (p=0.001). Conclusion: LMIC-affiliated authors are represented on only approximately half of publications resulting from NCI grants awarded directly to LMIC institutions or to US institutions with LMIC collaborators, and rarely in the first or last author position. LMIC-affiliated authors also receive less bibliometric attention when represented. Increased scientific capacity and more equitable collaboration should be critical priorities for the cancer research community working in LMICs moving forward. Citation Format: Linsey Eldridge, Elise Garton, Kalina Duncan, Satish Gopal. Underrepresentation of low- and middle-income country affiliated authors in NCI-supported cancer research. [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2023; Part 1 (Regular and Invited Abstracts); 2023 Apr 14-19; Orlando, FL. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2023;83(7_Suppl):Abstract nr 4186.

Impact of institutional affiliation bias on editorial publication decisions: A bibliometric analysis of three ophthalmology journals

Blinding is rarely performed for journal editors, who may be influenced by author institutional affiliations when deciding which manuscripts should be advanced for peer review. This study aims to evaluate the proportion of original investigations recently published in three high impact factor ophthalmology journals for which authors had matching institutional affiliations with the journals’ editor-in-chief or editorial board members. This bibliometric analysis included original investigations published in Ophthalmology, JAMA Ophthalmology, and American Journal of Ophthalmology between 2016 and 2020. The primary outcome was the proportion of studies for which the institutional affiliations of authors matched those of the editor-in-chief or other editorial board members. Descriptive analysis was also performed to assess the central tendency of affiliation match data. The study included 1033 studies from Ophthalmology; 822 from JAMA Ophthalmology; and 1513 from American Journal of Ophthalmology. In total, 48.9% of all included publications had at least one author-editor affiliation match and originated from 66 unique institutions. Stratified by journal, 55.0% of studies originated from 23 institutions across 32 editors for Ophthalmology; 41.8% originated from 22 institutions across 27 editors for JAMA Ophthalmology; and 48.5% originated from 45 institutions across 69 editors for American Journal of Ophthalmology. Study limitations were due to limited publicly available data. We were unable to identify trends of institutional affiliations among rejected articles or identify acceptance trends in articles based on which editor they were assigned. Additionally, we would have liked to report on affiliation matches between authors and reviewers. The finding that nearly half of all publications originated from a small pool of editor-affiliated institutions highlights the potential for editorial affiliation bias to exacerbate broader inequalities in academia. Editors should be blinded to ensure objective manuscript review.

Two decades of European criminology: Exploring the conferences of the European Society of Criminology through topic modelling

What is European criminology about? Through topic modelling, we investigate the content of 11,724 presentations held at the annual conferences of the European Society of Criminology, the largest and most influential professional association in Europe for those who are actively engaged in research, teaching, and/or practice in criminology, from 2001 to 2019. We extract 50 topics and identify the top contributing institutions and countries based on first author institutional affiliation. In addition, we determine the most and least influential topics in European criminology. We further explore how the prominence of topics has evolved over time and identify five topics that are increasingly being addressed and three topics that have gradually declined in interest – hot and cold topics, respectively. The results are discussed in light of previous research on European criminology and current debates on its epistemology.

Clasificación de la investigación académica en Metaliteracy

La Metaliteracy presenta, dentro de las multialfabetizaciones, un modelo conceptual transversal e integrador. Su enfoque innovador invita a identificar sus publicaciones y categorizarlas para entender sus métodos en su estudio. Se identificó la investigación sobre Metaliteracy mediante revisión de la literatura, identificando los resultados por autoría, fecha, filiación institucional de autores y principales revistas de publicación. Sobre su temática, se aplicó una clasificación ad hoc para el tratamiento de las palabras clave y adscripción a las categorías temáticas del Modelo Taxonómico de VOREMETUR, proyecto de investigación marco, cuyos resultados apuntan al diseño de programas en Metaliteracy para información digital. La investigación en Metaliteracy es todavía escasa y reciente, el grado de dispersión de autorías y fuentes es elevado. El desarrollo conceptual como disciplina de la Metaliteracy se vincula a la fundamentación de estudios de caso, sin planteamiento global para una investigación aplicada. Se constata la validez del Modelo Taxonómico VOREMETUR.

Author's Institutional Affiliation Incorrect in the Letter by Liu et al (Arthritis Rheumatol, April 2020).

Author's Institutional Affiliation Incorrect in the Letter by Liu et al (Arthritis Rheumatol, April 2020).

Author's Institutional Affiliation Omitted in the Article by Aeschlimann et al (Arthritis Rheumatol, February 2019).

Author's Institutional Affiliation Omitted in the Article by Aeschlimann et al (Arthritis Rheumatol, February 2019).

Author-reported affiliations on abstracts accepted for the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America (POSNA) Annual Meeting: A retrospective review

Professional education at academic medical meetings is under increasing scrutiny. No data have been published regarding the academic or institutional affiliations of authors who submit abstracts as part of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America (POSNA) Annual Meeting. We sought to study the self-reported institutional affiliations and other factors over a 6-year period. The POSNA annual meeting programs 2011-2016 were reviewed. The number of abstracts, including those for main program podium presentations, posters, e-posters, and subspecialty day were queried. The number of authors on each submission, presenting author’s reported institutional affiliation, and involvement of a study group or database were documented. Over the 5-year study period the abstract number increased (188 abstracts in 2011 and 294 in 2016, abstracts or a 56% increase). The mean number of authors listed per abstract was five (range, 4.9 to 5.4). Nineteen percent of abstracts were affiliated with three institutions: Texas Scottish Rite Hospital (103), Boston Children’s Hospital (95) and Rady Children’s Hospital (84). Boston Children’s Hospital and Texas Scottish Rite Hospital were most frequent in the main program. These two institutions accounted for 16% to 25% of main program podium abstracts across all years. The total number of abstracts with a study group affiliation increased over the evaluated period (five abstracts in 2011, 18 abstracts in 2016, a 4.5-fold increase). The abstract number at the POSNA annual meeting has increased substantially recently. Although the average number of authors listed on the abstract remained consistent over the review period, study groups/databases were reported as an author/source more frequently. Two academic pediatric orthopaedic centers were affiliated with approximately 20% of the main program abstracts each year. Level of Evidence: Level IV.

Scientific collaboration of Cuban researchers working in Europe: understanding relations between origin and destination countries

The global network of scientific collaboration created by researchers opens new opportunities for developing countries to engage in the process of knowledge creation historically lead by institutions in the developed world. The results discussed here explore how Cubans working in European science and technology might contribute to extending the scientific collaboration of the country through their ties with Cuban institutions mainly in the academic sector. A bibliometric method was used to explore the pattern of collaboration of Cuban researchers in Europe using the institutional affiliation of authors and collaborators. The records of scientific publications of the defined sample were obtained from Scopus database for the period between 1995 and 2014. The network of collaboration was generated using the affiliations of Cuban authors in Europe and co-authors with worldwide affiliations shown in the records of publications of each Cuban researcher of the study. The analysis of aggregate values of the output of Cuban researchers in Europe (1995–2014) reveals that their collaboration with Cuba correlates moderately with their performance in Europe. However, when taking into account their time publishing in Europe, the collaboration with Cuba decreases the longer they remain away from home. The network of collaborating Cuban researchers in Europe comprises 991 different affiliations from 58 countries: 698 from Europe, 118 from North America, 96 from Latin America and 79 from the rest of the world. K-core analysis of centrality shows two Cuban universities sharing the central position with another 24 institutions worldwide of which 18 belong to higher education.

Correction to: Inactivation of NSF ATPase Leads to Cathepsin B Release After Transient Cerebral Ischemia.

The author name "Dr. Jiang Wu" needed to be added as the 3rd author. The author institutional affiliations are correspondingly adjusted. The authors regret these errors.The original article has been corrected.

Bibliometric Analysis of the Scientific Production on Soil Erosion in Andalusia (1964-2008)

The primary aim of this paper is to analyze the scientific literature of soil water erosion research in Andalusia by means of bibliometric indicators. The period under consideration runs from 1964 to 2008, representing a total of 433 works published in international (135 references) and national (99) journals, national (83) and international (21) conferences proceedings, book chapters (54), books (18), doctoral thesis (16) and other documents (7). Bibliographic information was collected from Bib-Eron, a bibliographic database on soil erosion. The analysis was based on the scientific documents encoded in the database. Bibliometric indicators have been employed in order to establish the number of documents published by year of publication, distribution of documents by research topics, characteristics of contributions published in national and international journals, geographical distribution of scientific production, institutional affiliation of authors, institutional productivity and interinstitutional collaboration.

Organizational Studies in Latin America. A Literature Review (2000-2014)

This paper analyzes the current state of organizational studies based on a review of the top 10 Latin American journals published during the last 15 years (2000-2014). The reviewed articles were published in journals included in Web of Science or Scopus databases. A total of 3,210 articles were classified according to the theoretical perspectives defined for this review study. Research included a study of networks for the analysis of co-authors and the institutional affiliation of authors. The results allow to assert there is a tendency in the study of organizations from a functional-positivist approach, while other options for addressing organizational phenomena from a more comprehensive and critical perspective begin to emerge. This work was limited to the defined selection, leaving aside other important and representative journals in the field of organizational studies. Discussion section presents a general picture of the reality of the organizational field in Latin American specialized-literature, which provides possibilities to identify, locate and build specific projects in this field for future research.

Teoria ator-rede em estudos organizacionais: análise da produção científica no Brasil

Resumo Neste artigo, analisa-se a produção de estudos que adotaram a perspectiva teórica e metodológica da teoria ator-rede (TAR) em estudos organizacionais publicados no Brasil. Por meio de pesquisa bibliográfica e mapeamentos bibliométricos, sociométricos e cientométricos, analisaram-se 15 artigos publicados em periódicos brasileiros da área de avaliação Administração, Contabilidade e Turismo classificados como A2 no Qualis/Capes - quadriênio 2013-2016. Para análise da temática abordada foram empregadas, além dos mapeamentos, as técnicas análise de conteúdo e análise de contingência. As variáveis delineadoras foram: artigos publicados por ano, periódico e autor; filiação institucional dos autores; obras e autores mais citados; cooperação entre autores e instituições; citação cruzada; natureza do tipo de estudo (teórico ou empírico); e temática abordada (enfoque do estudo). Como principais resultados, destacam-se o baixo número de artigos publicados nos periódicos selecionados, a defasagem entre a primeira e a segunda publicação, os autores mais citados, que são Latour e Law, e a relação de orientação em programas de pós-graduação como importante elemento social da rede de cooperação entre autores. Apesar da constância de artigos publicados nos últimos anos, julga-se que haja grande espaço para crescimento, tanto no que se refere ao número de artigos e de redes de cooperação quanto aos temas ainda não estudados no Brasil, principalmente em estudos empíricos. Argumenta-se, à guisa de conclusão, que as publicações analisadas contribuíram para o deslocamento dos modelos dominantes de explicação das organizações e para enfatizar o papel que agentes não humanos desempenham na ação em rede.

Continuity and Change: Fifty Years of the Journal/Revue

AbstractThis article surveys the first five decades of the Journal/Revue, with particular emphasis on patterns of change and continuity. The article presents a quantitative analysis of the articles published in the Journal/Revue, looking at, among other things, the balance of articles published in English and in French, the proportion of articles authored by women, the location and institutional affiliation of authors and the subject matter of published articles. Significant continuities emerge from the data, such as the predominance of Canadian-based authors writing on aspects of Canadian politics and the dominance of authors from large research-intensive universities. Yet change is also evident, for example in the number of women publishing in the Journal/Revue and in the emergence of articles in subfields not found in the Journal/Revue’s earlier days, most notably Aboriginal politics, gender and politics, and race and ethnicity.

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This paper discusses reasons why manuscripts are not accepted for publication in Ethiopian Journal of Education (EJE). It intends to promote publication by domestic and/or international authors in EJE by analyzing the reasons for rejection of manuscripts. To gather the relevant data, a total of 101 rejected manuscripts submitted for publication EJE in the years 2008 to 2013 was collected and assessed. Moreover, contents of rejection letters were looked into. In doing so, the institutional affiliation of authors of the rejected manuscripts, editorial processes in which manuscripts were rejected mostly, the principal reasons for rejecting manuscripts of EJE, types of manuscripts which were more often exposed to rejection, and the nature of comments recommending rejection were analyzed. The results reveal that most of rejected manuscripts of EJE were affiliated from Addis Ababa University and Bahir Dar University, and the manuscripts were rejected mostly during the preliminary assessment, initial reviewing phase. Furthermore, using inappropriate research methods, poor data analysis and presentation, inadequacy of data to justify the conclusions, failure to follow the Journal’s styles and formats (guidelines) and failure or unwilling to revise manuscripts as per reviewers’ suggestions were principal reasons for rejecting manuscripts of EJE. The highest numbers of rejected manuscripts of EJE were also empirical studies which EJE accepts for publication consistently, and reviewers rejected those manuscripts after indicating their weaknesses and remarking further organization for resubmission. Finally, based on the results, the paper outlined recommendations for minimizing rejected manuscripts of EJE, and further studies were suggested. Key words: Manuscripts, publications, peer-review, rejection.

Who is shaping the field? Doctoral education, knowledge creation and postsecondary education research in the United States

ABSTRACTPrevious research has found the field of higher education, particularly in the United States, is dominated by functionalist approaches, a preponderance of survey data, and the ubiquitous use of advanced quantitative methods to investigate educational phenomena. This descriptive study aims to illuminate why the field is constructed in this way. Given that researchers have found doctoral education to influence the way scholars think about, conduct and disseminate their research, we explore the educational histories of published authors in the field with the belief that examining the distribution of institutional affiliations among authors may shed light on the dominance of particular approaches to knowledge production within the field. Specifically, we examined doctoral institutional affiliations of authors published in three top-tier higher education journals in the United States from 2006 to 2010. Our analysis illuminates that knowledge produced in the field of higher education is highly concentrated among both authors and particular institutions. Our findings raise important questions about the social processes governing knowledge generation within the field – including questions about the extent to which such concentration is or is not desirable.

Can you help me write my story? The institutional affiliations of authors of international journal articles on post-disaster health response.

Can you help me write my story? The institutional affiliations of authors of international journal articles on post-disaster health response.

Exploring the Accounting History Research in Turkey: Publishing Patterns of Academicians

The aim of the study is to determine how much interest the accounting academicians have in the history of their field. To analyze this interest we reviewed the academic research of the accounting academicians in Turkey on accounting history. The study explores publishing patterns in Turkish accounting academicians in academic journals and the thesis submitted in Turkish Universities on accounting history. In the study we analyzed and reported the recent development of the accounting history research in Turkey in the period 2000 to 2013. In the study we implemented a content analysis for academic articles. Firstly a comprehensive literature review has been done to find the accounting history articles published by the Turkish academicians in the last decade. We found 74 accounting history articles published in national and international academic journals by the Turkish academicians. The analysis of the articles examined the patterns of authorship, the most published authors, institutional affiliations of authors, author gender, the most published journals, subject areas, and period covered by the articles. In the second part of the study is a content analysis for the master and doctoral thesis on accounting history in Turkish Universities is provided. We searched the theses in the thesis database of The Council of Higher Education of Turkey. We limited the research on accounting history thesis, and we found only 11 theses on accounting history. The analysis of the theses examined the authorship, institutions thesis submitted, advisor of the thesis, subject areas, and period covered by the theses. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n4p323

The growth of impact evaluation for international development: how much have we learned?

This article examines the content of a web-based repository of published impact evaluations of international development interventions. To populate this repository, we conducted a systematic search and screening process. We find that of the 2259 studies published from 1981 to 2012, annual publication increased dramatically after 2008. Most studies are on health, education, social protection and agriculture and are concentrated in South Asia, East Africa, South and Central America and Southeast Asia. There are statistically significant differences in time between end line data collection and publishing by the publication type, and institutional affiliation of authors has shifted towards countries in North America and Europe.