RE: Applying the ICMJE authorship criteria to operational research in low-income countries: The need to engage programme managers and policy makers by Zachariah et al. (2013) TMIH 18, pp. 1025-1028

摘要

We thank the editors of the TMIH for their recent response (Cairncross et al. 2013) to our editorial (Zachariah et al. 2013). We salute the pioneering and passionate position of TMIH in encouraging researchers from developing countries to be involved and recognised in co-authorship (Groener 2004). We also appreciate the positive recognition of operational research as a science that can build theories and seek truth similar to academic research. We thus tend to agree with the editors' first point that we had artificially separated operational research from academic research but would now see it as a continuum from pure 'academic' research to more practical 'field or operational research'. They both attempt to find the 'truth' in their respective contexts.