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ReviewCommunications medicine2025

Call for a fairer approach to authorship in publishing biomedical research.

Phaik Yeong Cheah, Michael Parker

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Review in Communications medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
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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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Phaik Yeong CheahMahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand. phaikyeong@tropmedres.ac.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6327-3266
Michael ParkerEthox Centre, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

Funding

Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 203132Wellcome Trust (Wellcome) 220211/Z/20/ZWellcome Trust (Wellcome) 222870/Z/21/ZWellcome Trust (Wellcome) 228141/Z/23/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this Perspective article, we call for a fairer approach to authorship practice in collaborative biomedical research to promote equity and inclusiveness. Current practice does not adequately recognise all contributors involved in different stages of the work and may exacerbate preexisting inequalities. Here, we discuss some key features of contemporary collaborative research practice that complicate authorship decisions. These include the project size, complexity of multidisciplinary team involvement and researchers having varying degrees of expertise and experience. We conclude by making some suggestions to address these concerns.

Identifiers

PMID40169787
PMCPMC11961711

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