Table 1 The Geography of Authorship in Different Fields of Medical Research. For each income category, the percentage of papers with authors from that category is shown. In cases of coauthorship, papers were counted in the lowest income category represented among authors. “US, UK, CAN, or AUS authors” indicates the percentage of total papers with authors from the US, the UK, Canada, or Australia. Gini-Simpson diversity was also calculated within each field. MER had the highest percentage of authors from high income countries and Western English-speaking countries and had the lowest geographic diversity of any field examined
From: The geographic and topical landscape of medical education research
MeSH Term | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Education, Medical | Education | Medicine | Biological Science Disciplines | |
High Income | 89.5% | 86.5% | 85.8% | 67.4% |
Upper Middle Income | 5.8% | 8.7% | 9.1% | 25.1% |
Lower Middle Income | 3.8% | 3.5% | 4.0% | 6.9% |
Low Income | 0.9% | 1.3% | 1.0% | 0.6% |
US, UK, CAN, or AUS authors | 80.0% | 74.0% | 69.0% | 48.0% |
US authors | 57.3% | 52.3% | 48.4% | 36.7% |
Gini-Simpson Diversity | 0.753 | 0.802 | 0.855 | 0.905 |