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ReviewRevista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health2018

Stability and change in public health studies in Colombia and Mexico: an exploratory approach based on co-word analysis.

Carlos Vílchez-Román, Rocío Quiliano-Terreros

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Review in Revista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Searching for evidence in public health emergencies: a white paper of best practices.Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA · 2023
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Carlos Vílchez-RománUniversidad de San Martín de Porres, Lima, Peru.
Rocío Quiliano-TerrerosOffice of the Vice President for Research, Universidad Privada del Norte, Lima, Peru.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveTo determine the level of stability or change in topic areas published by public health journals in Latin America and the Caribbean, using keywords and co-word analysis, in order to support evidence-based research planning.

methodsKeywords were extracted from papers indexed in Scopus

resultsA moderate level of change in thematic coverage was observed in 2005 - 2010, as evidenced by the correlation coefficients for two of the 3-year periods, 2005 - 2007 and 2008 - 2010: 0.545 for RSP and 0.593 for SPM. However, in 2008 - 2013, more keywords remained constant from one period to the next, given the size of the correlation coefficients for the last 3-year periods: 2008 - 2010 and 2011 - 2013: 0.727 for RSP and 0.605 for SPM.

conclusionThe research hypothesis was partially accepted given that just two consecutive 3-year periods showed a statistically-significant degree of stability in thematic coverage in public health studies. In that sense, this study provides compelling evidence of the effectiveness of using a combined approach for examining the dynamics of thematic coverage: centrality measures for identifying the main keywords and visual inspection for detecting the structure of textual information.

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ColombiaLiterature based discoveryMexicoPerupublic healthterminology as topic

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PMID31093064
PMCPMC6386004

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