Organ Trafficking and Migration: A Bibliometric Analysis of an Untold Story

González, Juan Carlos; Garijo, Ignacio C.; Sánchez, Alfonso R.

doi:10.3390/ijerph17093204

Cited by 29 publications

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“…Actually, search results in WoS are not presented by author, year, subject and document types like Scopus, but also by institutions and countries [ 32 ], which is convenient for scholars to analyze the distribution of the research organizations. Moreover, WoSCC has been used as a data source in some previous bibliometric studies [ 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 ], which further proves its feasibility especially in the natural science domains. The study design was shown in Figure 1 .…”

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Bibliometric Evaluation of Global Tai Chi Research from 1980–2020

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While studies on the health benefits of Tai Chi have sprung up over the past four decades, few have engaged in collecting global data, estimating the developing trends, and conducting reviews from the perspective of visualization and bibliometric analysis. This study aimed to provide a summary of the global scientific outputs on Tai Chi research from 1980 to 2020, explore the frontiers, identify cooperation networks, track research trends and highlight emerging hotspots. Relevant publications were downloaded from the Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC) database between 1980 and 2020. Bibliometric visualization and comparative analysis of authors, cited authors, journals, co-cited journals, institutions, countries, references, and keywords were systematically conducted using CiteSpace software. A total of 1078 publications satisfied the search criteria, and the trend of annual related publications was generally in an upward trend, although with some fluctuations. China (503) and Harvard University (74) were the most prolific country and institution, respectively. Most of the related researches were published in the journals with a focus on sport sciences, alternative medicine, geriatrics gerontology, and rehabilitation. Our results indicated that the current concerns and difficulties of Tai Chi research are “Intervention method”, “Targeted therapy”, “Applicable population”, “Risk factors”, and “Research quality”. The frontiers and promising domains of Tai Chi exercise in the health science field are preventions and rehabilitations of “Fall risk”, “Cardiorespiratory related disease”, “Stroke”, “Parkinson’s disease”, and “Depression”, which should receive more attention in the future.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Bibliometric Evaluation of Global Tai Chi Research from 1980–2020

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“…On a theoretical level, a great deal has been written about trust and organ donation. 24,[28][29][30] Perverse financial incentives, perceptions of economic gain, reports of transplant practices favouring the wealthy, manipulation of transplant systems in favour of certain patients and unethical procurement practices have all directly diminished public trust in organ transplantation.…”

Section: Transparency and Trustmentioning

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Assessing Global Organ Donation Policies: Opt-In vs Opt-Out

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2021

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This paper argues that there is little difference between opt-in and opt-out organ donation systems for increasing donor numbers when used in isolation. Independently diverting to an opt-out system confers no obvious advantage and can harm efforts to bolster donations. Rather, it is essential to address barriers to organ donation on several levels along with a switch in system. Moreover, for many countries, it may be more beneficial to adequately capacitate the donation system already in place, rather than entertain a significant change with its attendant resource requirements. For decades, the international transplant community has been involved in vigorous debate as to the merits of moving from default opt-in systems to opt-out policies to grow organ donor numbers and better meet the everincreasing demand for lifesaving transplants. Opt-out is certainly en vogue, with Wales, England and Nova Scotia recently switching over, Scotland due to become opt-out in March 2021 and Northern Ireland and Canada seriously considering a similar move. Thanks to several countries making the switch from opt-in to opt-out over the last 20-30 years, there are sets of robust longitudinal data that aid in analysing the efficacy of donation systems. However, these data are often contradictory and largely inconclusive, suggesting other factors may be in play. This paper reviews some emerging trends in opt-in versus opt-out organ donation policies and considers recent data that elucidates some of the main contentions across each. Ethical frameworks underpinning donation systems, such as informed consent, trust and transparency, are discussed in detail. Substantial time is also devoted to opt-in vs opt-out systems in developing countries, which tend to be excluded from many analyses, and where the challenges faced are magnified by socio-economic constraints. This constitutes a major gap in recently published literature, as developing countries often lag far behind their developed counterparts in donor and transplant numbers.

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“…To elaborate: the gift of life or donating life is a pervasive trope within the transplant community, largely due to the National Organ Transplant Act prohibiting the buying or selling or organs within the USA (National Organ Transplant Act, 1984). While an international organ black market is very much active (Gonzalez et al, 2020), financially uncompensated, or altruistic, donation still comprises the vast majority of transplant operations in the USA. But, as we know, this characterisation is limited given that there are dozens if not hundreds of businesses whose financial solvency relies on the continuous circulation of organs.…”

Section: Health and Valuementioning

confidence: 99%