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Academic training of authors publishing in high-impact epidemiology and clinical journals

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  • Amanda Sullivan
  • Eleanor J Murray
  • Laura Corlin

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Background: To inform training program development and curricular initiatives, quantitative descriptions of the disciplinary training of research teams publishing in top-tier clinical and epidemiological journals are needed. Our objective was to assess whether interdisciplinary academic training and teamwork of authors publishing original research in 15 top-tier journals varied by year of publication (2000/2010/2020), type of journal (epidemiological/general clinical/specialty clinical), corresponding author gender, and time since the corresponding author completed formal training relative to the article publication date ( 0.05 for each comparison). Exceptions were participants with more recent epidemiological training all had co-author(s) with epidemiological training contribute to study design and interpretation, and participants who published in 2020 were more likely to report being extremely confident in their epidemiological abilities. Conclusions: This study was the first to quantify interdisciplinary training among research teams publishing in epidemiological and clinical journals. Our quantitative results show research published in top-tier journals generally represents interdisciplinary teamwork and that interdisciplinary training may provide publication type options. Our qualitative results show researchers view interdisciplinary training favorably.

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  • Amanda Sullivan & Eleanor J Murray & Laura Corlin, 2022. "Academic training of authors publishing in high-impact epidemiology and clinical journals," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 17(7), pages 1-13, July.
  • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0271159
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0271159
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