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

ABSTRACT:

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

SUBMITTER: Testoni FE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8026021 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature