ArticleEmerging themes in epidemiology2008
Does language matter? A case study of epidemiological and public health journals, databases and professional education in French, German and Italian.
Article in Emerging themes in epidemiology, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
What it found
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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
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Who cites it
9 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Global cardiovascular research output, citations, and collaborations: a time-trend, bibliometric analysis (1999-2008).PloS one · 2013Article
- Modernising the regulation of medical migration: moving from national monopolies to international markets.BMC medical ethics · 2012Article
- Where there is no health research: what can be done to fill the global gaps in health research?PLoS medicine · 2012Article
- Seek, and ye shall find: accessing the global epidemiological literature in different languages.Emerging themes in epidemiology · 2008Article
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Authors and funding
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Abstract
Epidemiology and public health are usually context-specific. Journals published in different languages and countries play a role both as sources of data and as channels through which evidence is incorporated into local public health practice. Databases in these languages facilitate access to relevant journals, and professional education in these languages facilitates the growth of native expertise in epidemiology and public health. However, as English has become the lingua franca of scientific communication in the era of globalisation, many journals published in non-English languages face the difficult dilemma of either switching to English and competing internationally, or sticking to the native tongue and having a restricted circulation among a local readership. This paper discusses the historical development of epidemiology and the current scene of epidemiological and public health journals, databases and professional education in three Western European languages: French, German and Italian, and examines the dynamics and struggles they have today.
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Registered trials
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