Systematic review and meta-analyses of studies analysing instructions to authors from 1987 to 2017.
Journal
Nature communications
ISSN: 2041-1723
Titre abrégé: Nat Commun
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101528555
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
05 10 2021
05 10 2021
Historique:
received:
11
05
2020
accepted:
24
08
2021
entrez:
6
10
2021
pubmed:
7
10
2021
medline:
7
10
2021
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
To gain insight into changes of scholarly journals' recommendations, we conducted a systematic review of studies that analysed journals' Instructions to Authors (ItAs). We summarised results of 153 studies, and meta-analysed how often ItAs addressed: 1) authorship, 2) conflicts of interest, 3) data sharing, 4) ethics approval, 5) funding disclosure, and 6) International Committee of Medical Journal Editors' Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts. For each topic we found large between-study heterogeneity. Here, we show six factors that explained most of that heterogeneity: 1) time (addressing of topics generally increased over time), 2) country (large differences found between countries), 3) database indexation (large differences found between databases), 4) impact factor (topics were more often addressed in highest than in lowest impact factor journals), 5) discipline (topics were more often addressed in Health Sciences than in other disciplines), and 6) sub-discipline (topics were more often addressed in general than in sub-disciplinary journals).
Identifiants
pubmed: 34611157
doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-26027-y
pii: 10.1038/s41467-021-26027-y
pmc: PMC8492806
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
5840Informations de copyright
© 2021. The Author(s).
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