Visualizing patterns and gaps in transgender sexual and reproductive health: A bibliometric and content analysis of literature (1990-2020).

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"As seen within the control search the United States dominates research on transgender SRH in terms of authorship. Additional analysis undertaken into this showed that the study areas of the literature also have a high focus within the United States, specifically at a city level. This presents difficulties in extending these studies into applications elsewhere as both the voice of the author(s) and the trans community involved are within a United States context. This high presence of the United States throughout top producing institutions and authors within the retrieved documents also raises concern over Northern bias in the knowledge production within SRH and trans health scholarship. Content analysis also revealed that studies – both in the United States and internationally – tended to focus primarily on large metropolitan cities (e.g., New York or Lima) that leaves non-urban trans communities lacking in representation within SRH research."