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Fostering Collaboration for Paediatric Demand-Driven Innovation : Insights and Strategies from the ADD4KIDS Working Group
No full textInnovation has long been the driving force behind improvements in healthcare, offering new treatments, technological advancements, and digital solutions that can transform lives. Yet, in paediatric healthcare, the path from innovation to implementation remains complex and fragmented. Despite the rapid advancements in medical technology, children continue to have limited access to the latest healthcare solutions. The adoption of innovation in paediatric settings is significantly slower than in adult healthcare, leaving a gap that urgently needs to be addressed. Moreover, children are not just “small adults”—their physiology, development, and disease progression differ fundamentally from those of adults. Many serious paediatric diseases arise from development-related issues and are often genetic in nature. In contrast, diseases in adults frequently stem from epigenetic changes and age-related alterations. This fundamental distinction underscores the necessity for paediatric-specific research and innovation rather than adapting adult medical advancements for children. To bridge this gap, targeted research and innovation must be prioritized to address the unique healthcare needs of children. Paediatric-focused advancements in medical technology, pharmaceuticals, and digital health solutions should be encouraged to ensure timely and effective care. Collaborative efforts among healthcare providers, researchers, policymakers, and industry leaders are essential to accelerate the adoption of paediatric innovations. The challenges that exist are well known: high development costs, complex regulatory pathways, and a lack of specific procurement frameworks tailored to paediatric needs. A striking example of this disparity is the limited adoption of paediatric-specific medical devices. Data shows that while the regulatory landscape has evolved to support medical advancements, only a small fraction of new devices and treatments designed for children ever make it to widespread clinical use. As a result, paediatric hospitals often rely on outdated or repurposed adult solutions that may not be ideally suited for young patients. At SJD Barcelona Children’s Hospital, one of Europe’s leading paediatric centres, we have witnessed first-hand both the transformative potential of medical innovation as well as the systemic barriers preventing its adoption. Addressing this challenge requires a paradigm shift—a move from reactive, fragmented procurement processes to a proactive, structured approach that prioritises the real needs of paediatric healthcare providers and patients. This is precisely the vision behind the ADD4KIDS project. By leveraging demand-driven funding mechanisms such as Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) and Public Procurement of Innovation (PPI), ADD4KIDS offers a European Action Plan to overcoming these barriers. The project brings together a broad coalition of stakeholders—healthcare providers, policymakers, industry players, and patient advocates—to create an ecosystem where paediatric innovation can thrive. At the heart of this initiative is the belief that innovation is not just about developing new technologies—it is about ensuring that those technologies reach the children who need them. Hospitals do not lack innovative solutions; they lack the pathways to efficiently integrate them into everyday clinical practice. ADD4KIDS serves as the missing link, bridging the gap between promising medical advancements and real-world healthcare delivery. The European healthcare community has both the expertise and the responsibility to act. By fostering collaboration, aligning priorities, and embracing smarter procurement strategies, we can accelerate the adoption of life-changing innovations in paediatrics. This White Paper serves both as a reflection on the existing challenges as well as a call to action to rethink how we approach innovation in paediatric healthcare. Through ADD4KIDS, we have the opportunity to reshape the future of paediatric medicine. It is our collective responsibility to ensure that children across Europe receive the best possible care—not in the distant future, but starting today.
Dr. Joan X. Comella Director of Research, Innovation and Knowledge Management SJD Barcelona Children’s Hospital</p
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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