Correction: BMC Med Res Methodol 23, 230 (2023)

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-023-02037-w

Following publication of the original article [1], the authors identified an error in Table 1. The first column "Number of authors" has been updated. The correct table is given below.

Table 1 Distribution of research articles across 7 categories of numbers of authors, and means (SD) and medians (Q1-Q3) of citations obtained in 2015–20 (Total citations, citations by others, collective self-citations, self-citations as percentage of total), and percentage of uncited papers, for 88,594 articles in health-related fields published in 2015

The original article [1] has been updated.