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Experiences of health research stakeholders with international health research collaborations in Zambia
No full textThesisThe promotion of collaborative partnerships involving researchers and institutions from Low-and Middle-Income Countries with those from High-Income Countries has been a major development in health research. While these initiatives have shown great promise and attracted growing interest, research examining the processes that improve or hinder joint working and the inner workings of international health research collaborations has been limited. The study aimed to explore the experiences of health research stakeholders with international health research collaborations.
A qualitative phenomenological inquiry was employed using In-depth interviews with 20 key informants involved in North-South health research partnerships conducting health research activities in different parts of Zambia. Thematic analysis was used to analyse the data with the aid of Nvivo 12 data management software.
The findings of this study revealed that partnerships produce benefits for Southern partners which include generating of evidence to influence policy, improved service delivery, infrastructure development and designing of interventions to improve the healthcare of populations in most need. Most importantly through partnerships, there is the availability of financial resources to accomplish partnership goals. To enhance international health research partnerships, effective communication, local leadership, values, and accountability were identified as important in the process of partnership functioning. Trust interacts with different elements that create partnerships where there is co-ownership of study rewards. When this trust has been created, more opportunities for partnerships are formed. Negative loops of interaction in health research collaborations are largely due to funding mechanisms where ninety percent of the funding for health research is from Northern partners. This funding mechanism results in power imbalances that lead to publication challenges, dictation of research agenda and ownership of samples and data leading to misunderstandings between partners and a general lack of motivation to collaborate.
The study highlights the importance of international health research collaborations and its many benefits which include strategies to address community health challenges through the supply of ideas, translating research into interventions and designing health strategies. Challenges experienced result from unequal power relations where most of the funding comes from Northern partners. Acknowledging and reporting both positive and negative processes maximises learning in health research collaborations and highlight areas that partnerships need to focus on to make the most of joint workings.
Keywords: Health Research, Successes, Challenges, International collaboration, Power-sharing, Trust and Transparenc
Experiences of health research stakeholders with international health research collaborations in Zambia
Get PDFThesisThe promotion of collaborative partnerships involving researchers and institutions from Low-and Middle-Income Countries with those from High-Income Countries has been a major development in health research. While these initiatives have shown great promise and attracted growing interest, research examining the processes that improve or hinder joint working and the inner workings of international health research collaborations has been limited. The study aimed to explore the experiences of health research stakeholders with international health research collaborations.
A qualitative phenomenological inquiry was employed using In-depth interviews with 20 key informants involved in North-South health research partnerships conducting health research activities in different parts of Zambia. Thematic analysis was used to analyse the data with the aid of Nvivo 12 data management software.
The findings of this study revealed that partnerships produce benefits for Southern partners which include generating of evidence to influence policy, improved service delivery, infrastructure development and designing of interventions to improve the healthcare of populations in most need. Most importantly through partnerships, there is the availability of financial resources to accomplish partnership goals. To enhance international health research partnerships, effective communication, local leadership, values, and accountability were identified as important in the process of partnership functioning. Trust interacts with different elements that create partnerships where there is co-ownership of study rewards. When this trust has been created, more opportunities for partnerships are formed. Negative loops of interaction in health research collaborations are largely due to funding mechanisms where ninety percent of the funding for health research is from Northern partners. This funding mechanism results in power imbalances that lead to publication challenges, dictation of research agenda and ownership of samples and data leading to misunderstandings between partners and a general lack of motivation to collaborate.
The study highlights the importance of international health research collaborations and its many benefits which include strategies to address community health challenges through the supply of ideas, translating research into interventions and designing health strategies. Challenges experienced result from unequal power relations where most of the funding comes from Northern partners. Acknowledging and reporting both positive and negative processes maximises learning in health research collaborations and highlight areas that partnerships need to focus on to make the most of joint workings.
Keywords: Health Research, Successes, Challenges, International collaboration, Power-sharing, Trust and Transparenc
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
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