About the Authors

Marisa Holubar

Contributed equally to this work with: Marisa Holubar, Maria Christina Stavroulakis

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Maria Christina Stavroulakis

Contributed equally to this work with: Marisa Holubar, Maria Christina Stavroulakis

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/ Elmhurst Hospital Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Yvonne Maldonado

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Department of Health Research and Policy, Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Diversity, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

John P. A. Ioannidis

Affiliations Stanford Prevention Research Center, Department of Medicine and Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States of America

Despina Contopoulos-Ioannidis

dcontop@stanford.edu

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Department of Health Research and Policy, Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Diversity, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: DCI JPAI YM. Data curation: MH MCS DCI. Formal analysis: MH MCS DCI. Investigation: MH MCS DCI JPAI YM. Methodology: MH MCS DCI JPAI YM. Project administration: MH MCS DCI. Software: DCI MCS. Supervision: DCI. Validation: MH MCS DCI. Visualization: MH MCS DCI JPAI YM. Writing – original draft: DCI MH MCS. Writing – review & editing: MH MCS DCI JPAI YM.