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Table 2 Summary of characteristics of publications and authors

From: CARTA fellows’ scientific contribution to the African public and population Health Research agenda (2011 to 2018)

Summary characteristics of publications and authors.

Total number of publications

806

Total number of fellows

140

Median impact factor of the journals

2.10 (IQR: 1.04–2.78).

Number of online versions of published papers

6308

Number of times all papers have been cited

5529

Number of countries of author affiliation

10

Number of host institutions

9

Number of papers with a CARTA fellow as first author

318 (41%)

Authorship teams

Single-authored publications (%)

29 (3.6%)

Publications with 2–5 authors (%)

434 (61.5%)

Publications with ≥ 5 authors (%)

246 (34.9%)

Mean number of authors per publication

5(sd:4)

Research approach

Mixed methods

6%

Qualitative

12%

Quantitative

72%

Review

10%