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ArticleBMJ global health2020

Article processing charges are stalling the progress of African researchers: a call for urgent reforms.

Juliet Nabyonga-Orem, James Avoka Asamani, Thomas Nyirenda, Seye Abimbola

Abstract readEditorial
In one paragraph

Article in BMJ global health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
25citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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  8. The missing voices in global health storytelling.PLOS global public health · 2024
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  10. Cost of open access publishing in otolaryngology-head and neck surgery.World journal of otorhinolaryngology - head and neck surgery · 2023
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  17. Transparent, Open, and Reproducible Prevention Science.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2022
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  19. Equity in Scientific Publication.Health services insights · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Juliet Nabyonga-OremUHC Life Course Cluster, World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa, Brazzaville, Congo nabyongaj@who.int.ORCID 0000-0002-1061-8678
James Avoka AsamaniUHC Life Course Cluster, World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa, Brazzaville, Congo.ORCID 0000-0003-0620-6010
Thomas NyirendaThe European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP), Francie van Zijl Drive, Cape Town 7505, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0003-4727-7130
Seye AbimbolaSchool of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-1294-3850

Funding

World Health Organization 001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Health Care ReformHealth PolicyHumanshealth policyhealth services researchhealth systems

Identifiers

PMID32958539
PMCPMC7507337

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