1. Selection of individuals to submit ideas and to score questions:
Individuals representing a wide range of technical expertise
in the area of newborn health and birth outcomes were selected
by including
• Top 100 most productive researchers in the previous 5
years (2008–2012), according to the Web of Science®, in
any research that involved neonates anywhere in the
world, including (but not limited to) fundamental research,
obstetrics and gynaecology, social science, and other
fields;
• Top 50 most productive researchers in the previous 5 years
(see above) in research specifically involving neonates in
low and middle income countries (LMICs);
• Top 50 most productive researchers in the previous 5 years
(see above) in any research involving stillbirths;
• 400 program experts in newborn health, who were contacted
through the Healthy Newborn Network Database,
representing mainly national–level health programme
managers in LMICs.