Authorship inequalities in global health research: the IeDEA Southern Africa collaboration.

Background: The International epidemiology Databases to Evaluate AIDS conducts research in several regions, including in Southern Africa. We assessed authorship inequalities for the Southern African region, which is led by South African and Swiss investigators.

Methods: We analysed authorships of publications from 2007 to 2020 by gender, country income group, time and citation impact.