Canada's neglected tropical disease research network: who's in the core-who's on the periphery?

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study designed and applied accessible yet systematic methods to generate baseline information about the patterns and structure of Canada's neglected tropical disease (NTD) research network; a network that, until recently, was formed and functioned on the periphery of strategic Canadian research funding.

Methodology

MULTIPLE METHODS WERE USED TO CONDUCT THIS STUDY, INCLUDING: (1) a systematic bibliometric procedure to capture archival NTD publications and co-authorship data; (2) a country-level "core-periphery" network analysis to measure and map the structure of Canada's NTD co-authorship network including its size, density, cliques, and centralization; and (3) a statistical analysis to test the correlation between the position of countries in Canada's NTD ne

SUBMITTER: Phillips K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3854962 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature