Table 2

Guidelines or language related to authorship in research conducted in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)

JournalGeneral authorship guidelineGeneral authorship guideline adheres to ICMJEAuthorship guideline including authors affiliated with LMICsNature of local authorship representation guideline
Annals of Global HealthYesYesNo
BMC Public HealthYesYesYesEncourage inclusion
BMJ Global HealthYesYesYesRequire inclusion
Central Asian Journal of Global HealthYesNoNo
Clinical Epidemiology and Global HealthYesYesNo
Emerging Microbes & InfectionsYesYesNo
Field Actions Science ReportsNo
Frontiers in Global Women’s HealthYesYesNo
Global Challenges (Hoboken, NJ)YesNoNo
Global Health ActionYesYesNo
Global Health GovernanceNo
Global Health InnovationNo
Global Health Journal (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)YesCRediTNo
Global Health PromotionYesYesNo
Global Health Research and PolicyYesYesYesEncourage inclusion
Global Health, Epidemiology and GenomicsYesYesNo
Global Health, Science and PracticeYesYesYesEncourage inclusion
Global Journal of Health ScienceYesCOPENo
Global Mental HealthYesYesNo
Global Pediatric HealthYesYesNo
Global Public HealthYesYesNoEncourage inclusion*
Global Reproductive HealthYesYesNo
Globalization and HealthYesYesYesEncourage inclusion
Health Policy OPENNoNoNo
International HealthYesYesNo
International Journal of MCH and AIDSYesYesNoRequire inclusion*
International Journal of Travel Medicine and Global HealthYesYesNo
International Public Health JournalYesCOPENo
Journal of Disease and Global HealthYesCOPENo
Journal of Epidemiology and Global HealthYesYesNo
Journal of Global HealthYesYesNo
Journal of Global Health Economics and PolicyYesYesNo
Journal of Global Health ReportsYesYesNoEncourage inclusion*
Journal of Global Health ScienceYesYesNo
Journal of Tropical PediatricsYesYesNo
Lancet Planetary HealthYesYesYesEncourage inclusion
Medicine, Conflict, and SurvivalYesYesNo
One Health (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)YesYesNo
Paediatrics and International Child HealthYesYesNo
Pathogens and Global HealthYesYesNo
PLOS Global Public HealthYesYesNo
Public Health ReviewsYesYesNo
The Journal of Global RadiologyYesYesNo
The Lancet Global HealthYesYesYesEncourage inclusion
Tropical Medicine and International HealthYesYesYesRequire inclusion
  • *Unofficial guideline from email correspondence.

  • COPE, Committee on Publication Ethics; ICMJE, International Committee of Medical Journal Editors.