The current state of global contribution to open access publishing in neurosurgery: A bibliometric analysis

Stefan W Koester; Anthony E Bishay; Sávio Batista; Raphael Bertani; Anant Naik; Josie Haizel-Cobbina; Albert Isaacs; Eberval Gadelha Figueiredo; Wellingson Silva Paiva; Michael C Dewan

doi:10.1016/j.bas.2023.101720

The current state of global contribution to open access publishing in neurosurgery: A bibliometric analysis

Brain Spine. 2023 Feb 3:3:101720. doi: 10.1016/j.bas.2023.101720. eCollection 2023.

Affiliations

¹ Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, 1161 21st Ave S # D3300, Nashville, TN, 37232, USA.
² Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Faculty of Medicine, Av. Carlos Chagas Filho, 373, 21941-590, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
³ Department of Neurosurgery, University of São Paulo, R. Dr. Ovídio Pires de Campos, 225 - Cerqueira César, 05403-010, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
⁴ Carle Illinois College of Medicine, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Champaign, 506 S Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA.
⁵ Department of Neurosurgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 1500 21st Ave. So. Suite 1506, Nashville, TN, 37212-8618, USA.

Abstract

•The top three countries made up 56.7% of the total open-access (OA) contributions.•Low and lower-middle-income countries are less than 8% of the total OA publications.•There is a disparity in academic voice in the neurosurgical literature.•Disparities potentially affect neurosurgery practice and knowledge dissemination.

Keywords: Global neurosurgery; Neurosurgery literature; Open-access; Publication disparity.