A comparative study of the literature on HIV/AIDS in Kenya and Uganda: A bibliometric study

Onyancha, Omwoyo Bosire; Ocholla, Dennis N.

doi:10.1016/j.lisr.2004.04.005

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“…In contrast, countries in Africa and the Middle East At a country level, the advances made in research are even more significant. In their study on HIV/AIDS literature included in the National Library of Medicine, Onyancha & Ocholla [10] reported negligible contributions from Uganda and Kenya in the form of journal articles published from 1989 to 1998 (n=11 and n=16, respectively). Our results show that these two countries have now become the second and third most productive on the continent, with a high number of contributions to journals indexed in the WoS-CC (n = 1921 documents from Uganda and n = 1586 in Kenya).…”

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HIV/AIDS research in Africa and the Middle East: participation and equity in North-South collaborations and relationships.

González‐Alcaide

Menchi-Elanzi

Nacarapa³

et al. 2019

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Background: HIV/AIDS has attracted considerable research attention since the 1980s. In the current context of globalization and the predominance of cooperative work, it is crucial to analyze the participation of the countries and regions where the infection is most prevalent, African continent being the hardest hit (67.5% of estimated cases). This study assesses the participation of African countries in publications on the topic, as well as the degree of equity or influence existing in North-South relations.Methods : We identified all articles and reviews of HIV/AIDS indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection. We analyzed the scientific production, collaboration, and contributions from African and Middle Eastern countries to scientific activity in the region. The concept of leadership was used to determine the equity in research produced through international collaboration. Results: A total of 68,808 documents published from 2010 to 2017 were analyzed. Researchers from North America and Europe participated in 82.14% of the global scientific production on HIV/AIDS, compared to just 21.61% from Africa and the Middle East. Furthermore, the research that did come out of these regions was concentrated in a small number of countries, led by South Africa (41% of the documents). Other features associated with HIV/AIDS research from Africa include the importance of international collaboration from the USA, the UK, and other European countries (75%-93% of the documents) and the limited leadership that is evident (30% to 36% of the documents). Finally, the research to which African countries contributed had a notably different disciplinary orientation, with a predominance of research on public health, epidemiology, and drug therapy.Conclusions: It is essential to foster more balance in research output, avoid the concentration of resources that reproduces the global North-South model on the African continent, and focus the research agenda on local priorities. To accomplish this, the global North should strengthen the transfer of research skills and seek equity in cooperative ties, favoring the empowerment of African countries. These efforts should be concentrated in countries with low scientific activity and high incidence and prevalence of the disease. It is also essential to foster intraregional collaborations between African countries.

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HIV/AIDS research in Africa and the Middle East: participation and equity in North-South collaborations and relationships.

González‐Alcaide

Menchi-Elanzi

Nacarapa³

et al. 2019

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“…& Mijangos-Nolasco, A. 2002) and Kenya and Uganda (Onyancha & Ocholla, 2004). These studies' focus, however, has been on HIV/AIDS research as it is published in books, conference proceedings, and journal articles.…”

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Empowering the South African community's AIDS intervention workforce: an informetric study of HIV/AIDS research projects, with special reference to masters and doctoral dissertations and theses

Onyancha¹

2013

South African Journal of Libraries and Information Science

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The prevalence rate of HIV in South Africa has maintained an alarmingly high level and has become a great concern for all stakeholders. The situation has demanded an increase in the number and strengthening of the HIV/AIDS intervention workforce to fight the pandemic. This has resulted in many individuals enrolling to undergo training in institutions of higher learning and the aftermath has been an increased number of graduates conducting research on various aspects of the disease. The purpose of this study is to generally assess the role that is being played by various institutions of higher leaning in South Africa in graduate preparedness as a means of empowering the country's HIV/AIDS intervention workforce. Using publication count, the study analyses research publications found indexed in SABINET's Current and Completed Research and the Union Catalog of Theses and Dissertations databases. Results are presented under the headings: empowerment trends: language of empowerment; institutions behind the empowerment: individuals behind the empowerment: "study leaders" and students; information sources for empowerment; purposes for which candidates were prepared (or empowered): and the areas/sectors of empowerment. Conclusions and recommendations as well as suggestions for further research are provided.Keywords: HIV, Acquired Immunodetlciency Syndrome, Infonnetrics, South Africa, Empowerment I INTRODUCTIONIn the business circles, the term empowerment refers to a condition whereby employees have the authority to make decisions and take action in their work placeswithout prior approval (www.asq.org/info/glossary/e.htm/) while to empower a community means to increase its ability to do things for itself, resulting to more skills, more confidence, and more effective organization on the part of the empowered community. Health professionals, on the other hand, define empowerment as a process of adding vitality, energy, and new powerful resources to a person (www.neurosemantics.com/ Articles/Glossary.htm). When these three definitions are put together, empowering a community and its labor force will mean enabling it to do things for itself through the allocation of financial resources, training of professionals in various fields of knowledge as well as the provision of relevant information that can aid in informed decision-making thereby enhancing a community's vitality, energy and human resources.Worldwide, universities are recognized for their role in human resources development. Countries all over the world do recognize the importance and role of universities and other institutions of higher learning such as diploma and certificate colleges in the promotion of research, training and community outreach and, in the process, have put in place mechanisms to improve research in various disciplines, including biomedicine. Policies have been formulated in countries such as South Africa in order to encourage as well as strengthen research in such areas as HIV/AIDS. For instance, in South Africa, the Ministry of Education -th...

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“…An investigation conducted by Macias‐Chapula (), for instance, analyzed the HIVAIDS literature generated in Haiti to determine the trends in the type of publications and their subject content over an 18‐year period. Similar studies were conducted on the HIV/AIDS literature generated in India (Patra & Chand, ), Central Africa (Macias‐Chapula et al., 2001), Kenya and Uganda (Onyancha & Ocholla, ), and Nigeria (Uthman, ). Statistical techniques have also been employed to analyze HIV/AIDS literature to determine variations in specific subject areas.…”

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Modeling the relationship between an emerging infectious disease epidemic and the body of scientific literature associated with it: The case of HIV/AIDS in the United States

Naidoo

Huber

Cupp

et al. 2012

J Am Soc Inf Sci Tec

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This study undertook an exploratory analysis of the relationship between the body of scientific literature associated with HIV/AIDS and the trajectory of the epidemic, measured by the rate of new cases diagnosed annually in the United States for the period covering 1981 to 2009. The body of scientific literature examined in this investigation was constituted from scientific research that developed alongside the epidemic and was extracted from MEDLINE, a bibliographic database of the United States. National Library of Medicine. Content analysis methods were employed for qualitative data reduction, and regression analysis was used to assess whether variation in the trajectory of the epidemic co-occurred with variation in the publication of specific genres of content within the scientific literature relating to HIV/ AIDS. The regression model confirmed a statistically significant association between the representative body of HIV/AIDS scientific literature and the epidemic trajectory, and identified three research categories, namely, ameliorative drug treatments, other clinical protocols, and health education, as being most significantly associated with the epidemic trajectory. Implicit in the findings of this study are areas of scientific research that are of functional and practical interest to clinicians, policy makers, the lay public, and contributors to the body of scientific literature.

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A comparative study of the literature on HIV/AIDS in Kenya and Uganda: A bibliometric study

Cited by 26 publications

References 6 publications

HIV/AIDS research in Africa and the Middle East: participation and equity in North-South collaborations and relationships.

HIV/AIDS research in Africa and the Middle East: participation and equity in North-South collaborations and relationships.

Empowering the South African community's AIDS intervention workforce: an informetric study of HIV/AIDS research projects, with special reference to masters and doctoral dissertations and theses

Modeling the relationship between an emerging infectious disease epidemic and the body of scientific literature associated with it: The case of HIV/AIDS in the United States

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