2018/05/14 by The Lancet Global Health · 3 citations
Medicine · #Global Health and Surgery #Closing (real estate) #Medicine #Political science #Law
paper · doi:10.1016/s2214-109x(18)30239-0
openalex publication_date 2018/05/14 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
No one likes a parachute researcher: the one who drops into a country, makes use of the local infrastructure, personnel, and patients, and then goes home and writes an academic paper for a prestigious journal. At The Lancet Global Health, we look extremely unfavourably on papers submitted by authors who have done primary research in another country (particularly a low-income or middle-income country) but not included any author from that nation. For research involving patient recruitment, treatment in existing facilities, and follow-up, the notion that no locally based individuals made a “substantial contribution” (per authorship criteria) to the acquisition of data is pure fiction.