scholarly journals Bibliometric analysis of gaps in research on asbestos-related diseases: declining emphasis on public health over 26 years

BMJ Open ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. e022806 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ro-Ting Lin ◽  
Matthew John Soeberg ◽  
Lung-Chang Chien ◽  
Scott Fisher ◽  
Jukka Takala ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Time Trends ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Current Trend ◽  
Public Health Research ◽  
Clinical Area ◽  
The Public ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Health Area ◽  
The Web

ObjectivesThe global burden of asbestos-related diseases (ARDs) is significant, and most of the world’s population live in countries where asbestos use continues. We examined the gaps between ARD research and suggestions of WHO and the International Labour Organization on prevention.MethodsFrom the Web of Science, we collected data on all articles published during 1991–2016 and identified a subset of ARD-related articles. We classified articles into three research areas—laboratory, clinical and public health—and examined their time trends. For all and the top 11 countries publishing ARD-related articles, we calculated the proportions of all ARD-related articles that were in each of the three areas, the average rates of ARD-related articles over all articles, and the average annual per cent changes of rates.ResultsARD-related articles (n=14 284) accounted for 1.3‰ of all articles in 1991, but this had declined to 0.8‰ by 2016. Among the three research areas, the clinical area accounted for the largest proportion (65.0%), followed by laboratory (26.5%) and public health (24.9%). The public health area declined faster than the other areas, at −5.7% per year. Discrepancies were also observed among the top 11 countries regarding emphasis on public health research, with Finland and Italy having higher, and China and the Netherlands lower, emphases.ConclusionsThere is declining emphasis on the public health area in the ARD-related literature. Under the ongoing global situation of ARD, primary prevention will remain key for some time, warranting efforts to rectify the current trend in ARD-related research.

scholarly journals The human exposome unraveling the impact of environment on health

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly Polido Kaneshiro Olympio ◽  
Fernanda Junqueira Salles ◽  
Ana Paula Sacone da Silva Ferreira ◽  
Elizeu Chiodi Pereira ◽  
Allan Santos de Oliveira ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
The State ◽  
The Public ◽  
Health Area ◽  
The Impact

Considering the innovative nature of the approach to human exposome, we present the state of the art of studies on exposome, and discuss current challenges and perspectives in this area. Several reading and discussion activities were conducted by the Expossoma e Saúde do Trabalhador (eXsat – Group Exposome and Worker’s Health), with systematization of the literature in the area published between January 2005 and January 2017, available in the databases PubMed and Web of Science. This comment brings a thematic analysis to encourage the dissemination of the exposome approach for studies in the Public Health area.

scholarly journals A scientometric overview of CORD-19

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Colavizza ◽  
Rodrigo Costas ◽  
Vincent A. Traag ◽  
Nees Jan van Eck ◽  
Thed van Leeuwen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Molecular Biology ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Clinical Medicine ◽  
Complete Coverage ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
The Web

AbstractAs the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, researchers from all disciplines are coming together and contributing their expertise. CORD-19, a dataset of COVID-19 and coronavirus publications, has been made available along-side calls to help mine the information it contains and to create tools to search it more effectively. We analyse the delineation of the publications included in CORD-19 from a scientometric perspective. Based on a comparison to the Web of Science database, we find that CORD-19 provides an almost complete coverage of research on COVID-19 and coronaviruses. CORD-19 contains not only research that deals directly with COVID-19 and coronaviruses, but also research on viruses in general. Publications from CORD-19 focus mostly on a few well-defined research areas, in particular: coronaviruses (primarily SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2); public health and viral epidemics; molecular biology of viruses; influenza and other families of viruses; immunology and antivirals; clinical medicine. CORD-19 publications that appeared in 2020, especially editorials and letters, are disproportionately popular on social media. While we fully endorse the CORD-19 initiative, it is important to be aware that CORD-19 extends beyond research on COVID-19 and coronaviruses.

scholarly journals A scientometric overview of CORD-19

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. e0244839
Author(s):  
Giovanni Colavizza ◽  
Rodrigo Costas ◽  
Vincent A. Traag ◽  
Nees Jan van Eck ◽  
Thed van Leeuwen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Molecular Biology ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Clinical Medicine ◽  
Complete Coverage ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
The Web

As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, researchers from all disciplines are coming together and contributing their expertise. CORD-19, a dataset of COVID-19 and coronavirus publications, has been made available alongside calls to help mine the information it contains and to create tools to search it more effectively. We analyse the delineation of the publications included in CORD-19 from a scientometric perspective. Based on a comparison to the Web of Science database, we find that CORD-19 provides an almost complete coverage of research on COVID-19 and coronaviruses. CORD-19 contains not only research that deals directly with COVID-19 and coronaviruses, but also research on viruses in general. Publications from CORD-19 focus mostly on a few well-defined research areas, in particular: coronaviruses (primarily SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2); public health and viral epidemics; molecular biology of viruses; influenza and other families of viruses; immunology and antivirals; clinical medicine. CORD-19 publications that appeared in 2020, especially editorials and letters, are disproportionately popular on social media. While we fully endorse the CORD-19 initiative, it is important to be aware that CORD-19 extends beyond research on COVID-19 and coronaviruses.

Navigating the Ethics of Big Data in Public Health

2019 ◽  
pp. 353-367
Author(s):  
Effy Vayena ◽  
Lawrence Madoff
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Credit Card ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Public Health Research ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
The Public ◽  
Health Community ◽  
Digital Disease Detection ◽  
The Public Sphere

“Big data,” which encompasses massive amounts of information from both within the health sector (such as electronic health records) and outside the health sector (social media, search queries, cell phone metadata, credit card expenditures), is increasingly envisioned as a rich source to inform public health research and practice. This chapter examines the enormous range of sources, the highly varied nature of these data, and the differing motivations for their collection, which together challenge the public health community in ethically mining and exploiting big data. Ethical challenges revolve around the blurring of three previously clearer boundaries: between personal health data and nonhealth data; between the private and the public sphere in the online world; and, finally, between the powers and responsibilities of state and nonstate actors in relation to big data. Considerations include the implications for privacy, control and sharing of data, fair distribution of benefits and burdens, civic empowerment, accountability, and digital disease detection.

scholarly journals Scientometric analysis activity in the publication «life sciences» in the world and in Ukraine

2019 ◽  
pp. 23-33
Author(s):  
V.M. Yevtushenko
Keyword(s):  
Core Collection ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Journal Citation Report ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Scientometric Analysis ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
The World ◽  
Scientific Papers ◽  
Scientific Fields ◽  
The Web

The article is devoted to the study of the state and trends of the publishing activity of Ukrainian scientists and leading countries in the field of life sciences («Life sciences»). The Web of Science Core Collection (WoS CC), Journal Citation Report (JSR) and InCites, as well as classifications of scientific fields designed to structure the publication flow of scientific papers and journals in these information resources, are used for the research base – Web of Science Categories and Research Areas. The article presents the results of the author’s research on the publication indices of scientists of Ukraine and the leading countries of the world for the period 2008-2018 in the field of “Life Sciences” according to the international science-computer database of Web of Science. Conclusions about the growth of indicators of publication activity of scientific works in the field of “Life Sciences” are made. The tendency of a significant increase in their number in Ukraine has been revealed, but domestic studies do not represent all the areas of «Life Sciences» most popular in foreign scientists

IMPACTS OF THE PARTIAL RELOCATION OF HAZARIBAGH TANNERIES ON THE ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN HEALTH: FOCUS ON CHILDREN AND VULNERABLE POPULATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 01-07
Author(s):  
Shama E. Haque ◽  
Nazmun Nahar ◽  
Sadia Chowdhury ◽  
Ali S. Sakib ◽  
Ahsan Saif ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Public Health Research ◽  
Vulnerable Population ◽  
Geochemical Data ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
The Public ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
Treatment Technologies ◽  
Key Informant Interview ◽  
The Impact

Purpose of the study: The purpose of the study is to determine whether the partial relocation of Hazaribagh tanneries has any effect on the area’s soil quality with respect to chromium and to determine a possible link between human exposure/diseases to chromium, with the focus being placed on children and vulnerable population. Methodology: Geochemical sampling and public health research related to fieldwork (Focus Group Discussions, two In-Depth Interview, and Key Informant Interview). Main Findings: The study indicates that there is a significant presence of chromium in the area’s soil two years following the partial relocation of Hazaribagh tanneries. Flu-like symptoms, generalized skin rash, and fertility issues are common in the vulnerable population. The residents are ignorant, belong to the marginalized section of the society, and do not fully comprehend of the impact of environmental exposure to chromium. Applications of this study: The geochemical data may be used to identify in situ treatment technologies for remediation of the area’s soil. The public health data will allow health policymakers to generate ideas and implement solutions to one of the greatest health challenges faced by the impacted population. Novelty/Originality of this study: The study is multidisciplinary by nature and employs science and technology to systematically develop an insight into the environmental contamination resulting from the release of untreated effluent and solid waste containing chromium.

The Political Economy of Health: Revisiting Its Marxian Origins to Address 21st-Century Health Inequalities

2020 ◽  
pp. e1-e8
Author(s):  
Michael Harvey
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Public Health Research ◽  
The Political ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Race And Racism ◽  
The Public ◽  
Critical Theories ◽  
Political Economy Of Health ◽  
Marxian Political Economy

The “political economy of health” is concerned with how political and economic domains interact and shape individual and population health outcomes. However, the term is variously defined in the public health, medical, and social science literatures. This could result in confusion about the term and its associated tradition, thereby constituting a barrier to its application in public health research and practice. To address these issues, I survey the political economy of health tradition, clarify its specifically Marxian theoretical legacy, and discuss its relevance to understanding and addressing public health issues. I conclude by discussing the benefits of employing critical theories of race and racism with Marxian political economy to better understand the roles of class exploitation and racial oppression in epidemiological patterning. (Am J Public Health. Published online ahead of print December 22, 2020:e1–e8. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2020.305996 )

The distinctiveness of author interdisciplinarity: A long-neglected issue in research on interdisciplinarity

2020 ◽  
pp. 016555152093949
Author(s):  
Wenyu Zhang ◽  
Shunshun Shi ◽  
Xiaoling Huang ◽  
Shuai Zhang ◽  
Peijia Yao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Similarity Measure ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
The Other ◽  
Diversity Measure ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Network Similarity ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Web

In the research on interdisciplinarity (RID), measures for evaluating the interdisciplinarity of scientific entities (e.g., papers, authors, journals or research areas) have been proposed for a long time. The author interdisciplinarity is very different from the other types of interdisciplinarity because of the complex interpersonal relationships between the connected authors. However, previous work has failed to uncover the distinctiveness of author interdisciplinarity and has regarded it as equivalent to other types of interdisciplinarity. In this work, an extended Rao–Stirling diversity measure is proposed, which incorporates the co-author network and a network similarity measure to specifically evaluate the author interdisciplinarity. Moreover, betweenness centrality is used for improving network similarity measure, because of its intrinsic advantage of expressing how an entity loads on different factors in a network, which is highly in line with the characteristic of interdisciplinarity. An experiment on the papers about Public Administration in the Web of Science is conducted; based on the final results, a deeper investigation is performed into by typical authors. The work proposes a novel idea for measuring author interdisciplinarity, which can promote the study of interdisicplinarity measuring in RID.

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