Cargando…

InfectiousDiseases ofPoverty, the first five years

Although the focus in the area of health research may be shifting from infectious to non-communicable diseases, the infectious diseases of poverty remain a major burden of disease of global health concern. A global platform to communicate and share the research on these diseases is needed to facilit...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Wang, Wei, Chen, Jin, Sheng, Hui-Feng, Wang, Na-Na, Yang, Pin, Zhou, Xiao-Nong, Bergquist, Robert
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5415955/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28472981
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40249-017-0310-6
_version_ 1783233635656138752
author Wang, Wei
Chen, Jin
Sheng, Hui-Feng
Wang, Na-Na
Yang, Pin
Zhou, Xiao-Nong
Bergquist, Robert
author_facet Wang, Wei
Chen, Jin
Sheng, Hui-Feng
Wang, Na-Na
Yang, Pin
Zhou, Xiao-Nong
Bergquist, Robert
author_sort Wang, Wei
collection PubMed
description Although the focus in the area of health research may be shifting from infectious to non-communicable diseases, the infectious diseases of poverty remain a major burden of disease of global health concern. A global platform to communicate and share the research on these diseases is needed to facilitate the translation of knowledge into effective approaches and tools for their elimination. Based on the “One health, One world” mission, a new, open-access journal, Infectious Diseases of Poverty (IDP), was launched by BioMed Central in partnership with the National Institute of Parasitic Diseases (NIPD), Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) on October 25, 2012. Its aim is to identify and assess research and information gaps that hinder progress towards new interventions for a particular public health problem in the developing world. From the inaugural IDP issue of October 25, 2012, a total of 256 manuscripts have been published over the following five years. Apart from a small number of editorials, opinions, commentaries and letters to the editor, the predominant types of publications are research articles (69.5%) and scoping reviews (21.5%). A total of 1 081 contributing authors divided between 323 affiliations across 68 countries, territories and regions produced these 256 publications. The journal is indexed in major international biomedical databases, including Web of Science, PubMed, Scopus and Embase. In 2015, it was assigned its first impact factor (4.11), which is now 2.13. During the past five years, IDP has received manuscripts from 90 countries, territories and regions across six continents with an annual acceptance rate of all contributions maintained at less than 40%. Content analysis shows that neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), followed by the “Big Three” (HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis) and infectious diseases in general comprise 88% of all publications. In addition, a series of 10 thematic issues, covering 118 publications in all, was published as separate parts of the first five volumes. These publications were cited 975 times, which equals an average of 8.3 times per publication. The current challenge is to identify cutting-edge research topics and attract and to publish first-rate publications leading to increasing importance and impact of the journal in its field. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s40249-017-0310-6) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-5415955
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2017
publisher BioMed Central
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-54159552017-05-04 InfectiousDiseases ofPoverty, the first five years Wang, Wei Chen, Jin Sheng, Hui-Feng Wang, Na-Na Yang, Pin Zhou, Xiao-Nong Bergquist, Robert Infect Dis Poverty Editorial Although the focus in the area of health research may be shifting from infectious to non-communicable diseases, the infectious diseases of poverty remain a major burden of disease of global health concern. A global platform to communicate and share the research on these diseases is needed to facilitate the translation of knowledge into effective approaches and tools for their elimination. Based on the “One health, One world” mission, a new, open-access journal, Infectious Diseases of Poverty (IDP), was launched by BioMed Central in partnership with the National Institute of Parasitic Diseases (NIPD), Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) on October 25, 2012. Its aim is to identify and assess research and information gaps that hinder progress towards new interventions for a particular public health problem in the developing world. From the inaugural IDP issue of October 25, 2012, a total of 256 manuscripts have been published over the following five years. Apart from a small number of editorials, opinions, commentaries and letters to the editor, the predominant types of publications are research articles (69.5%) and scoping reviews (21.5%). A total of 1 081 contributing authors divided between 323 affiliations across 68 countries, territories and regions produced these 256 publications. The journal is indexed in major international biomedical databases, including Web of Science, PubMed, Scopus and Embase. In 2015, it was assigned its first impact factor (4.11), which is now 2.13. During the past five years, IDP has received manuscripts from 90 countries, territories and regions across six continents with an annual acceptance rate of all contributions maintained at less than 40%. Content analysis shows that neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), followed by the “Big Three” (HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis) and infectious diseases in general comprise 88% of all publications. In addition, a series of 10 thematic issues, covering 118 publications in all, was published as separate parts of the first five volumes. These publications were cited 975 times, which equals an average of 8.3 times per publication. The current challenge is to identify cutting-edge research topics and attract and to publish first-rate publications leading to increasing importance and impact of the journal in its field. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s40249-017-0310-6) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2017-05-04 /pmc/articles/PMC5415955/ /pubmed/28472981 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40249-017-0310-6 Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
spellingShingle Editorial
Wang, Wei
Chen, Jin
Sheng, Hui-Feng
Wang, Na-Na
Yang, Pin
Zhou, Xiao-Nong
Bergquist, Robert
InfectiousDiseases ofPoverty, the first five years
title InfectiousDiseases ofPoverty, the first five years
title_full InfectiousDiseases ofPoverty, the first five years
title_fullStr InfectiousDiseases ofPoverty, the first five years
title_full_unstemmed InfectiousDiseases ofPoverty, the first five years
title_short InfectiousDiseases ofPoverty, the first five years
title_sort infectiousdiseases ofpoverty, the first five years
topic Editorial
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5415955/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28472981
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40249-017-0310-6
work_keys_str_mv AT wangwei infectiousdiseasesofpovertythefirstfiveyears
AT chenjin infectiousdiseasesofpovertythefirstfiveyears
AT shenghuifeng infectiousdiseasesofpovertythefirstfiveyears
AT wangnana infectiousdiseasesofpovertythefirstfiveyears
AT yangpin infectiousdiseasesofpovertythefirstfiveyears
AT zhouxiaonong infectiousdiseasesofpovertythefirstfiveyears
AT bergquistrobert infectiousdiseasesofpovertythefirstfiveyears