Collaboration on HIV/AIDS research in Latin America and the Caribbean : comparison of regional and international databases

Macías-Chapula, César A., Mendoza-Guerrero, J. Antonio, Rodea-Castro, I. Patricia, Gutiérrez-Carrasco, Alejandro and Juárez-Sánchez, Enrique Collaboration on HIV/AIDS research in Latin America and the Caribbean : comparison of regional and international databases., 2006 . In International Workshop on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics & Seventh COLLNET Meeting, Nacy (France), 10-12 May, 2006. (Unpublished) [Conference paper]

[thumbnail of (Macias-Chapula_et_all,_collnet_2006_FullTex_Format).pdf]
Preview
 PDF
(Macias-Chapula_et_all,_collnet_2006_FullTex_Format).pdf
Download (150kB) | Preview

English abstract

This paper presents the results of a research in progress on HIV/AIDS research in developing countries. In this case, the paper refers to the collaboration patterns found among researchers in the Latin American and Caribbean regions. A bibliographic search in both, regional (Latin American and Caribbean Database on the Health Sciences–LILACS) and international (MEDLINE) databases for the period 1982-2005 was conducted. The goal being to compare patterns of collaboration found among regional countries through both databases. Bibexcell 2001 was used to generate the registry files needed for the following indicators: authorship; country of publication; type of documents; subject content of the publications, and language. Results described that collaboration was more visible in MEDLINE than in LILACS. It was also found that the USA was the leading country in collaboration with all the 12 countries analysed. The paper further discusses on the implications of this type of research for developing countries and provides practical applications of the results derived from the study.

Item type: Conference paper
Keywords: AIDS; Latin America and the Caribbean; bibliometrics studys; Collaboration reseach; Medline; Lilcas;
Subjects: B. Information use and sociology of information > BB. Bibliometric methods
Depositing user: César Macías
Date deposited: 18 Apr 2006
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:03
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/7429

References

C. S. Wagner, I. Brahmakulam, B. Jackson, A. Wong and T. Yoda, Science and technology collaboration: building capacity in developing countries? RAND, Santa Monica, CA, 2001.

A.O. Lucas, International collaboration in health research, Bull World Health Organ 83: 482, 2005.

World Health Organization, World Health Report, 2000: World Health Organization, Geneva, 2001.

J.F. Gaillard, North-South research partnership: is collaboration possible between unequal partners? Knowledge and Policy 7: 2, 1994.

I. Wolffers, S. Adjei and R. van der Drift, Health research in the tropics, Lancet, 351: 16521654, 1995.

T. Edejer, North-South research partnerships: the ethics of carrying out research in developing countries, British Medical Journal, 319: 438441, 1999.

G.H. Swingler, V. Pillary, E. D. Pienaar and J. P. Ioannidis, International collaboration, funding and association with burden of disease in randomized controlled trials in Africa. Bull World Health Organ 83:511517, 2005.

F. Binka, North-South research collaborations: a move towards a true partnership? Tropical Medicine and International Health, 10 (39): 207209, 2005.

Swiss Commission for Research Partnership with Developing Countries, Guidelines for research in partnership with developing countries: 12 principles : Swiss Academy of Sciences, Berne (Switzerland), 2000.

WHO, World Health Report 2000, Word Health Organization, Geneva 2001.

M. I. Fernandez, J. A. Kelly, L. Y. Stevenson, C. A. Sitzler, J. Hurtado, C. Valdez, F. Vallejo, A. M. Somalí, Y. A. Amirkanian, E. G. Benotsch, K. D. Brown and K. M. Opgennorth, HIV prevention programs of nongovernmental organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean: the Global AIDS Intervention Network project, Rev Panam Salud Publica, 17(3): 154162, 2005.

J. M. Garcia-Calleja, N. Walker, P. Cuchi, S. Lazzari, P. D. Ghys and F. Zacarias, Status of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and methods to monitor it in the Latin America and Caribbean region, AIDS, 16 (suppl 3): S3S12, 2002.

C. F. Caceres, HIV among gay and other men who have sex with men in Latin America and the Caribbean: a hidden epidemic? AIDS, 16 (Suppl 3): S23-S33, 2002.

C.M. Rodriguez, L. F. Marques and G. Touze, HIV and injection drug use in Latin America, AIDS, 16 (Suppl 3): S34S41, 2002.

A. García-Abreu, I. Noguer, and K. Cowgill, HIV/AIDS in Latin American countries. The challenges ahead: The World Bank, Washington, 2003.

C. A. Macias-Chapula, I. P. Rodea-Castro, and N. Narvaez-Berthelemot, Bibliometric analysis of AIDS literature in Latin America and the Caribbean, Scientometrics, 41(1-2): 4149, 1998.

C. A. Macias-Chapula, G. R. Sotolongo-Aguilar, B. Madge and J. Solorio-Lagunas, Subject content analysis of AIDS literature, as produced in Latin America and the Caribbean, Scientometrics, 46(3): 563574, 1999.

C. A. Macias-Chapula, AIDS in Haiti: a bibliometric analysis, Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, 88(1): 5661, 2000.

C. A. Macias-Chapula and A. Mijangos-Nolasco, Bibliometric analysis of AIDS literature in Central Africa, Scientometrics, 54(2): 309317, 2002.

C. A. Macias-Chapula, Análisis Bibliométrico de la Literatura Publicada sobre SIDA en el Sur de África, Revista Española de Documentación Científica, 25(4): 433441, 2002.

OPS, Situación de la salud en las Americas. Indicadores Básicos : OPS, Washington, D. C., 2005.

WHO/UNAIDS, Epidemiological fact sheets on HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections. Update 2004, Retrieved from: http://www.unaids.org/en/Regions_Countries/Countries/default.asp

A. Seror and I. Neuman, E-Publishing in science and healthcare: alternative models for development, EJISDC, 11: 0718, 2003.

F.A. Pellegrini, M. Goldbaum and J. Silvi, Production of scientific articles on health in six Latin American countries, 1973-1992, Pan Am J Public Health 2(2): 121132, 1997.


Downloads

Downloads per month over past year

Actions (login required)

View Item View Item
Contact us
Send email Sponsors
Sponsor: AIMS Sponsor: D&P Sponsor: UniNa CAB Get connected
Facebook Facebook Twitter Twitter Linkedin LinkedIn RSS RSS