Table 2.
Characteristics of survey participants
| Male (%) | 53 |
| Age (years (sd)) | 53 (12.7) |
| Region (%) | |
| Western Europe | 31 |
| North America | 28 |
| South America | 20 |
| Asia | 7 |
| Eastern Europe | 5 |
| Africa | 5 |
| Australia/New Zealand/Pacific | 4 |
| Setting (%) | |
| University or university medical center | 70 |
| Non-profit research institute | 8 |
| For-profit research institute | 2 |
| Funding organization | 2 |
| Government | 7 |
| Academic publisher | 5 |
| Other | 6 |
| Job title (%) | |
| Full professor | 25 |
| Associate professor | 12 |
| Assistant professor | 7 |
| PhD student | 7 |
| Postdoc | 1 |
| Policy maker/policy advisor | 14 |
| Administrator | 7 |
| Other | 27 |
| Disciplinary field (%) | |
| Biomedical sciences | 58 |
| Social sciences | 19 |
| Natural sciences | 15 |
| Humanities | 8 |
| Holds PhD degree (%) | 68 |
| Years since PhD degree (sd) | 23 (13.0) |
Thirty-five percent of the 227 respondents did not answer these questions
sd standard deviation