Textual analysis and scientometric mapping of the dynamic knowledge in and around the IFSA community

Barbier, Marc; Bompart, Marianne; Garandel-Batifol, Véronique; Mogoutov, Andreï

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-4503-2_4

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“…The data was processed using the CorText platform [21], which allowed us to build co-occurrence maps. These maps were constructed by using specific algorithms that associate entities (names of research institutions and most frequent terms) according to their frequency of cooccurrence within a chosen corpus of texts [22]. In our analysis, the corpus consisted of a set of scientific publications.…”

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“…We inferred that the most frequently connected multi-terms corresponded to those research topics and methodologies that define the prevailing HBMS research agenda. As explained by Barbier et al [22], "co-word analysis maps various types of associations between terms that ontologically represent the textual strategizing of authors is a method that extracts data from texts without presumptions about their content". For the same reasons explained above, we also used chisquare to determine the edges of the multi-terms' network maps and the Louvain algorithm to detect clusters.…”

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Whose shoulders is health research standing on? Determining the key actors and contents of the prevailing biomedical research agenda

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Background Conflicts of interest in biomedical research can influence research results and drive research agendas away from public health priorities. Previous agenda-setting studies share two shortfalls: they only account for direct connections between academic institutions and firms, as well as potential bias based on researchers’ personal beliefs. This paper’s goal is to determine the key actors and contents of the prevailing health and biomedical sciences (HBMS) research agenda, overcoming these shortfalls. Methods We performed a bibliometric and lexical analysis of 95,415 scientific articles published between 1999 and 2018 in the highest impact factor journals within HBMS, using the Web of Science database and the CorText platform. HBMS’s prevailing knowledge network of institutions was proxied with network maps where nodes represent affiliations and edges the most frequent co-authorships. The content of the prevailing HBMS research agenda was depicted through network maps of prevalent multi-terms found in titles, keywords, and abstracts. Results The HBMS research agendas of large private firms and leading academic institutions are intertwined. The prevailing HBMS agenda is mostly based on molecular biology (40% of the most frequent multi-terms), with an inclination towards cancer and cardiovascular research (15 and 8% of the most frequent multi-terms, respectively). Studies on pathogens and biological vectors related to recent epidemics are marginal (1% of the most frequent multi-terms). Content of the prevailing HBMS research agenda prioritizes research on pharmacological intervention over research on socio-environmental factors influencing disease onset or progression and overlooks, among others, the study of infectious diseases. Conclusions Pharmaceutical corporations contribute to set HBMS’s prevailing research agenda, which is mainly focused on a few diseases and research topics. A more balanced research agenda, together with epistemological approaches that consider socio-environmental factors associated with disease spreading, could contribute to being better prepared to prevent and treat more diverse pathologies and to improve overall health outcomes.

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Whose shoulders is health research standing on? Determining the key actors and contents of the prevailing biomedical research agenda

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“…If we observe a generally good participation during the symposiums, the permanent involvement of the younger scientists in exchanges and actions is less constant. Although no specific measuring has been done for these networks, such a reality is coherent with the results of Barbier et al (2008) showing (for an other network) that only 5% of the authors of the IFSA 2 symposiums have produced 36% of the communication 3 and wondering if the IFSA network is a real community. In the case of the FAO -CIHEAM network on sheep and goats, the number of members has increased from 192 (Morand-Fehr et al, 1996) to 225 in 2008 but with less permanent active participation.…”

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The role of the Mediterranean networks of cooperative research in animal production in favor of innovation: situation and outlooks for the future

Dubeuf

Boyazoglu

2012

New Trends for Innovation in the Mediterranean Animal Production

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The animal production sector in the Mediterranean, as in other areas but with specific characteristics has to face new challenges related to environment, productivity and social issues. By considering the hypothesis that more and urgent innovation is needed, to solve the complexity of these problems, the organization, activities and production of some permanent networks of Cooperative Research in Animal Production are described and their possible role in these process are discussed. It would mean that these networks could involve cooperating scientists from several disciplines and other "actors". The development of networking would be probably a major stake to enlarge a more strategic and open approach of the questions to answer. The present disciplinary organization, the real involvement of a variety of actors, their impact on innovation and some suggestions for their evolution are analyzed to outline the difficulties existing to change the situation.

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“…The data were processed using the CorText platform [21], which allowed us to build co-occurrence maps by using specific algorithms that associate entities according to their frequency of co-occurrence within a chosen corpus of texts [22]. In our case, the corpus consisted of a CONICET scientific publications’ set, and we analyzed the prevailing content of the research included in it, proxying CONICET’s HBMS research agenda.…”

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Academic dependency: the influence of the prevailing international biomedical research agenda on Argentina’s CONICET

Carrillo

Testoni

Gagnon

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BackgroundPrevious research within the field of health and biomedical sciences (HBMS) reported that its prevailing research agenda is determined by leading academic institutions and big pharma companies, prioritizing the exploration of novel pharmacological interventions over research on the socio-environmental determinants of disease. Unlike previous studies, which have relied primarily on qualitative analyses, the aim of this investigation is to quantitatively explore if that prevailing international research agenda influences research in semi-peripheral countries and to which extent.MethodsWe used the Web of Science database and the CorText platform to proxy the HBMS research agenda of a prestigious research institution from Latin America: Argentina’s National Research Council (CONICET). We conducted a bibliometric and lexical analysis of 16,309 HBMS scientific articles whereby CONICET was among the authors’ affiliations. The content of CONICET’s agenda was depicted through co-occurrence network maps of the most prevalent multi-terms found in titles, keywords, and abstracts. We compared our findings with previous reports on the international HBMS research agenda.ResultsIn line with the results previously reported for the prevailing international agenda, we found that multi-terms linked to molecular biology and cancer research hegemonize CONICET’s HBMS research agenda, whereas multi-terms connecting HBMS research with socio-environmental cues are marginal. However, we also found differences with the international agenda: CONICET’s HBMS agenda shows a marginal presence of multi-terms linked to translational medicine, while multi-terms associated with categories such as pathogens, plant research, agrobiotechnology, and food industry are more represented than in the prevailing agenda.ConclusionsIn line with the academic dependency theory, CONICET’s HBMS research agenda shares topics, priorities, and methodologies with the prevailing HBMS international research agenda. However, CONICET’s HBMS research agenda is internally heterogeneous, appearing to be mostly driven by a combination of elements that not only reflect academic dependency but also economic dependency.

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Textual analysis and scientometric mapping of the dynamic knowledge in and around the IFSA community

Cited by 17 publications

References 21 publications

Whose shoulders is health research standing on? Determining the key actors and contents of the prevailing biomedical research agenda

Whose shoulders is health research standing on? Determining the key actors and contents of the prevailing biomedical research agenda

The role of the Mediterranean networks of cooperative research in animal production in favor of innovation: situation and outlooks for the future

Academic dependency: the influence of the prevailing international biomedical research agenda on Argentina’s CONICET

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