Table 2.
Country affiliations as classified by the human development index of all, first, and last authors of all full articles published in 2000-2 in the six leading tropical medicine journals. Source ISI Web of Science
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No of contributing authors
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All authors†
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First authors‡
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Last authors‡
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Journal | No of articles analysed* | High (%) | Medium (%) | Low (%) | High (%) | Medium (%) | Low (%) | High (%) | Medium (%) | Low (%) | |
| American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | 638 | 4197 | 55.9 | 38.0 | 6.1 | 59.8 | 35.7 | 4.5 | 66.5 | 29.4 | 4.1 |
| Tropical Medicine and International Health | 398 | 2041 | 47.6 | 26.4 | 26.0 | 53.9 | 24.1 | 22.0 | 65.4 | 20.3 | 14.3 |
| Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | 538 | 2840 | 45.6 | 38.5 | 15.9 | 47.5 | 38.6 | 13.9 | 58.3 | 32.2 | 9.5 |
| Acta Tropica | 349 | 1654 | 42.5 | 48.5 | 9.0 | 46.3 | 44.3 | 9.4 | 53.0 | 39.1 | 7.9 |
| Leprosy Review | 155 | 519 | 38.6 | 46.2 | 15.2 | 45.5 | 38.4 | 16.1 | 47.4 | 37.4 | 15.2 |
| Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology | 306 | 1486 | 40.6 | 40.6 | 18.8 | 40.2 | 44.1 | 15.7 | 46.9 | 40.4 | 12.7 |
| Total | 2384 | 12 737 | 48.1 | 38.2 | 13.7 | 50.6 | 36.9 | 12.5 | 58.8 | 31.8 | 9.4 |
*
For inclusion criteria see materials and methods section.
†
Based on the number of all authors in each journal.
‡
Based on the number of all articles in each journal.