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The Identification of Scientific Communities and Their Approach to Worldwide Malaria Research

It is essential to establish a pattern to detect the strengths and weaknesses of working groups publishing on malaria, to promote coordination to facilitate the eradication of the disease. Given the complexity of the scientific network of groups and institutions studying malaria, it is necessary to...

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Autores principales: Garrido-Cardenas, José Antonio, Manzano-Agugliaro, Francisco, González-Cerón, Lilia, Gil-Montoya, Francisco, Alcayde-Garcia, Alfredo, Novas, Nuria, Mesa-Valle, Concepción
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6313382/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30513616
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15122703
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author Garrido-Cardenas, José Antonio
Manzano-Agugliaro, Francisco
González-Cerón, Lilia
Gil-Montoya, Francisco
Alcayde-Garcia, Alfredo
Novas, Nuria
Mesa-Valle, Concepción
author_facet Garrido-Cardenas, José Antonio
Manzano-Agugliaro, Francisco
González-Cerón, Lilia
Gil-Montoya, Francisco
Alcayde-Garcia, Alfredo
Novas, Nuria
Mesa-Valle, Concepción
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description It is essential to establish a pattern to detect the strengths and weaknesses of working groups publishing on malaria, to promote coordination to facilitate the eradication of the disease. Given the complexity of the scientific network of groups and institutions studying malaria, it is necessary to use a mathematical algorithm that allows us to know the real structure of research on the disease in the world. In this work, articles with the word “malaria” in the title or author keywords gathered from Elsevier Scopus database were analyzed. By means of specific software, graphs were created. The analysis of the data allowed established different scientific communities, among which two were very diverse: one formed by those groups concerned about the vector transmission and control, and another one focused on the drug resistance of the parasite. Basic, applied, and operational research to eradicate malaria is an ambitious goal of the international institutions and the scientific community. The combination of effort and the establishment of a worldwide-scientific network that allows an effective interconnection (exchange) of knowledge, infrastructure technology, collaborators, financial resources, and datasets will contribute more effectively to end the disease.
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spelling pubmed-63133822019-06-17 The Identification of Scientific Communities and Their Approach to Worldwide Malaria Research Garrido-Cardenas, José Antonio Manzano-Agugliaro, Francisco González-Cerón, Lilia Gil-Montoya, Francisco Alcayde-Garcia, Alfredo Novas, Nuria Mesa-Valle, Concepción Int J Environ Res Public Health Article It is essential to establish a pattern to detect the strengths and weaknesses of working groups publishing on malaria, to promote coordination to facilitate the eradication of the disease. Given the complexity of the scientific network of groups and institutions studying malaria, it is necessary to use a mathematical algorithm that allows us to know the real structure of research on the disease in the world. In this work, articles with the word “malaria” in the title or author keywords gathered from Elsevier Scopus database were analyzed. By means of specific software, graphs were created. The analysis of the data allowed established different scientific communities, among which two were very diverse: one formed by those groups concerned about the vector transmission and control, and another one focused on the drug resistance of the parasite. Basic, applied, and operational research to eradicate malaria is an ambitious goal of the international institutions and the scientific community. The combination of effort and the establishment of a worldwide-scientific network that allows an effective interconnection (exchange) of knowledge, infrastructure technology, collaborators, financial resources, and datasets will contribute more effectively to end the disease. MDPI 2018-11-30 2018-12 /pmc/articles/PMC6313382/ /pubmed/30513616 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15122703 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Novas, Nuria
Mesa-Valle, Concepción
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6313382/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30513616
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15122703
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