Group authorships in Cochrane had low compliance with Cochrane recommendations.
Cochrane
Cochrane review
authorship
group authorship
methodology
Journal
Journal of evidence-based medicine
ISSN: 1756-5391
Titre abrégé: J Evid Based Med
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101497477
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Aug 2020
Aug 2020
Historique:
received:
13
02
2020
accepted:
10
05
2020
pubmed:
20
6
2020
medline:
13
7
2021
entrez:
20
6
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Recently, group authorships have become more common. Group authorship describes a situation where the name of a group of people is included in the byline of an article. Historically, however, group authorships have been associated with citation errors and difficulties identifying who could be regarded as an author. Cochrane is a collaboration that publishes high-quality systematic reviews and meta-analyses and transparency in authorship should be high. Group authorships in Cochrane have not previously been examined. This study aimed to describe group authorships in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR). In total, 8396 reviews from the CDSR were screened for group authorships from inception to 31 December 2019. Data from group authorships were extracted and analyzed. A total of 41 reviews with group authorships were included. Almost half of group authorships (46%, 19/41) were published from 2015 to 2019. Median number of group members was 32 (range 6-91). Median publication time (protocol to review) of group authorships was 3.1 years. Of all group authorships, 39% met ICMJE's first authorship criterion, 41% met the second, and 12% met the third criterion. For only two studies all authors met the three authorship criteria. A low prevalence of group authorships existed in Cochrane reviews. Reviews with group authorships took median three years to publish, and very few of group authorships in Cochrane complied with the ICMJE authorship criteria.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
199-205Informations de copyright
© 2020 Chinese Cochrane Center, West China Hospital of Sichuan University and John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd.
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