Population Characteristics in Justice Health Research Based on PubMed Abstracts From 1963 to 2023: Text Mining Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The field of epidemiological criminology (or justice health research) has emerged in the past decade, studying the intersection between the public health and justice systems. To ensure research efforts are focused and equitable, it is important to reflect on the outputs in this area and address knowledge gaps.

Objective

This study aimed to examine the characteristics of populations researched in a large sample of published outputs and identify research gaps and biases.

Methods

A rule-based, text mining method was applied to 34,481 PubMed abstracts published from 1963 to 2023 to identify 4 population characteristics (sex, age, offender type, and nationality).

Results

We evaluated our method in a random sample of 100 PubMed abstracts. Microprecision wa

SUBMITTER: Lukmanjaya W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11624456 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature