Mapping the tuberculosis scientific landscape among BRICS countries: a bibliometric and network analysis

Castor, Kamaiaji; Mota, Fábio Batista; Silva, Roseli Monteiro da; Cabral, Bernardo Pereira; Maciel, Ethel Leonor Nóia; Almeida, Isabela Neves de; Arakaki-Sanchéz, Denise; Andrade, Kleydson Bonfim; Testov, Vadim; Vasilyeva, Irina; Zhao, Yanlin; Zhang, Hui; Singh, Manjula; Rao, Raghuram; Tripathy, Srikanth; Gray, Glenda; Padayatchi, Nesri; Bhagwandin, Niresh; Swaminathan, Soumya; Kasaeva, Tereza; Kritski, Afrânio Lineu

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“…( 21 ) This may be one reason for the substantial increase in the number of publications, with rapid economic development enhancing domestic research capacity. ( 9 , 22 ) Ongoing initiatives to intensify collaboration in research on TB within the BRICS TB Research Network ( 23 ) may accelerate this trend in coming years.…”

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Intensified research on tuberculosis in the Western Pacific Region: a bibliometric analysis, 2000–2019

Morishita

Yamanaka

Islam

2020

WPSAR

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“Intensified TB research and innovation” is one of the three pillars of the End TB Strategy. To assess achievements and gaps in tuberculosis (TB) research productivity in countries and areas of the Western Pacific Region quantitatively, a bibliometric analysis was carried out by examining trends in the numbers of publications on TB indexed in PubMed between 2000 and 2019 and by comparing them with trends in publications on other selected major infectious diseases for the same period. The number of publications on TB in the Region increased by 3.2 times during the period, from 534 in 2000–2004 to 1714 in 2015–2019, as compared with 2.9 times each for HIV, hepatitis and malaria. The number increased by 46% in 2005–2009, 79% in 2010–2014 and 23% in 2015–2019, as compared with each previous 5-year period. The average annual growth rate between 2000 and 2018 was 8.8%. China accounted for 34.8% of the total number of publications on TB in the Region. Increases in TB research were observed in most countries and areas in the Region, particularly in those with a high TB burden. The number of publications on TB remained low, however, in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Mongolia and Pacific island countries. Countries are encouraged to implement the set of actions proposed in the Global Strategy for TB Research and Innovation to accelerate progress towards ending TB.

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Intensified research on tuberculosis in the Western Pacific Region: a bibliometric analysis, 2000–2019

Morishita

Yamanaka

Islam

2020

WPSAR

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“…The WoS consists of a wide conglomerate of quality and high-impact scientific studies with more than 12 million articles for bibliometric analysis [ 25 ]. The WoS was chosen because of the numerous amounts of secondary information available for its indexed papers which offered numerous possibilities for bibliometric analysis [ 26 ], and the WoS is the most frequent database used for bibliometric study [ 27 ]. No database used for bibliometric study is considered superior as there are extensive variations in citations data in each database [ 28 ].…”

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“…To avoid documents whose focus was not on TB, we carried out the search using the title (tt) field rather than the topic (tp) field. The tt field encompasses articles’ titles, abstracts, and keywords, (from authors and keywords plus) and keywords (from authors and keywords plus) [ 26 ]. The dataset retrieved from WoS database was processed and analyzed for bibliometric indicators using bibliometrix R-package in R-studio v.3.4.1 [ 21 ].…”

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“…To retrieve the required data, the following steps were carried out: (a) the word “tuberculosis” was entered in the WoS search engine as title search; (b) the timespan was set from 2010–2019; (c) the documents were refined by limiting the search countries/regions to only Africa countries, (d) the retrieved data were exported via BibTex and finally; (e) biblioshiny and Microsoft Excel were used for graphical and data analyses. In this study, degree-centrality was used to measure or estimate a given node’s significance in a network [ 26 , 29 ]. This metric signifies the number of ties to a node.…”

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Bibliometric Analysis on Tuberculosis and Tuberculosis-Related Research Trends in Africa: A Decade-Long Study

Igwaran

Edoamodu

2021

Antibiotics

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Tuberculosis is one of the oldest known diseases and the leading communicable cause of deaths worldwide. Although several studies have been carried out on tuberculosis, no research has examined the publication trends in this area. Hence, this study aimed to fill the gap by conducting a bibliometric study in publications trends on tuberculosis and tuberculosis-related studies in Africa from 2010–2019 and explore the hotspots. Information in published documents on tuberculosis and its related studies from 2010 to 2019 were retrieved from the Web of Science (WoS) database. The bibliometric tool biblioshiny and Microsoft Excel 2016 were used to analyse the top leading journals, top cited documents, authors’ country production, country collaboration networks, most relevant authors, authors’ impacts, most relevant authors by corresponding author, most cited countries, university collaborations, most relevant affiliations, conceptual structural maps, title word co-occurrence networks, collaboration and significance of individual sources, university, country and keyword relations. A total of 3945 published documents were retrieved. The analyses showed that European Respiratory Journal was the leading journal in publications on tuberculosis studies with a total of 452 published articles, the WHO 2012 report was the most cited document with 2485 total citations while South Africa was the most productive country in tuberculosis publications as well as the leading country with the highest co-authorship collaboration. Analysis of top relevant authors revealed that Anonymous (133) and Dheda (44) were the two topmost relevant authors of tuberculosis publications, South Africa was the most relevant country by corresponding authors and the topmost cited country for tuberculosis publications. Furthermore, analysis of the university collaborations network showed that the University of Cape Town was the topmost university in Africa with the highest collaboration network, tuberculosis as a word had the highest co-occurrence network while the Three Field Plot diagram revealed the relations between universities, keywords and countries. This study provides a quantitative and qualitative analyses of the leading journals, most cited published articles, title word occurrences, and most relevant authors in published documents on tuberculosis and tuberculosis related studies from 2010–2019.

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“…As a way to identify virology-related R&D areas from an interdisciplinary perspective, a co-occurrence technique was used in terms of disciplines represented by the 344 ASJC codes by using the Vantage Point ® system (Search Tech, Inc., Herndon, VA, USA, Version 12) as previously demonstrated [24]. The tool has been widely used to map the scientific landscape of medical research [26][27][28] and allows the co-occurrence matrix to be built showing the records in the dataset contained in two given lists as follows:…”

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Global Collaboration Research Strategies for Sustainability in the Post COVID-19 Era: Analyzing Virology-Related National-Funded Projects

2020

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In the post-COVID-19 era, virology-related research, which not only depends on the governments as its main source of funding but also requires international and interdisciplinary collaborations, is recognized as an essential defense for sustainability. Few published studies have examined the trend, but only for certain viruses before the mid-2010s. Moreover, it is challenging to define generally accepted virology-related research fields due to its broad spectrum. Thus, it is time that we confront the unprecedented pandemic to understand the status of nationally supported projects in developed nations to establish international collaborative research strategies from an interdisciplinary perspective. In this study, 32,365 national-funded projects were collected from the US, EU, and Japan and assigned to five scientific fields to conduct a cluster analysis. Then, an expert-based approach was utilized to define an individual cluster. Moreover, a comparative analysis between nations was carried out to determine if there was a competitive edge for collaboration. As a result, a framework for virology-related research areas was constructed to provide the status quo and differences between nations’ research capabilities, thereby eliciting practical global research and development (R&D) cooperation to achieve a common agenda and a direction for goals in the post-COVID-19 era. These findings have implications for viral response R&D, policy, and practice for future pandemics. A systematic approach based on scientific evidence and an R&D collaboration strategy between industry and academia is essential to resolve the interdisciplinary barriers between countries and promote sustainable virus R&D collaboration.

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Mapping the tuberculosis scientific landscape among BRICS countries: a bibliometric and network analysis

Cited by 16 publications

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Intensified research on tuberculosis in the Western Pacific Region: a bibliometric analysis, 2000–2019

Intensified research on tuberculosis in the Western Pacific Region: a bibliometric analysis, 2000–2019

Bibliometric Analysis on Tuberculosis and Tuberculosis-Related Research Trends in Africa: A Decade-Long Study

Global Collaboration Research Strategies for Sustainability in the Post COVID-19 Era: Analyzing Virology-Related National-Funded Projects

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