Stroke Research Disparity in Southeast Asia: Socioeconomic Factors, Healthcare Delivery, and Stroke Disease Burden

Bibliometric analysis of bacterial central nervous system infection research in Southeast Asia

“…The total number of neurologists in a country was significantly associated with all bibliometric indices. This was also seen in the other bibliometric studies [ 9 , 10 , 12 ]. This could be attributed to lesser patient workload and more time to perform research if there is a higher number of neurologists.…”

“…The %GDP for R&D was associated with a higher total number of publications. This was seen in countries like Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand, which had a high %GDP for R&D. This finding was consistent with the other bibliometric studies done in SEA [8,9,[11][12][13]. However, %GDP for R&D was not explored in a bibliometric analysis on epilepsy research output [10].…”

“…Among these studies, only 9 published articles had collaborations among authors from SEA. The amount of research outputs on this topic in SEA was lower compared to the other neurologic diseases (dementia, n =775; epilepsy, n =702; movement disorders, n =1567; stroke, n =2577) [ 9 – 12 ] but greater than primary brain tumors ( n =549) [ 13 ]. It was notable, however, that among the published bibliometric analysis of neurology-related research outputs in SEA, studies on multiple sclerosis and neuromyelitis optica-spectrum disorders had the fewest output ( n =142) [ 8 ].…”

“…Africa had lesser publications on this topic (less than 100) compared to SEA [20]. The bibliometric analyses of SEA research productivity on the different neurologic conditions consistently showed that Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand produced the highest number of research publications [8][9][10][11][12][13]. In this study, Malaysia and Thailand were still among the highest producer of research outputs along with Vietnam, which replaced Singapore as part of the top 3 countries with the largest amount of publications.…”

“…The status of research and scientific outputs with regards to bacterial CNS infection in SEA is unknown. This is hypothesized to be low, as shown in other neurologic diseases, such as epilepsy, dementia, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, stroke, primary brain tumor, and neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder [8][9][10][11][12][13]. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the bacterial CNS infection research output of SEA countries in terms of bibliometric indices.…”