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Whose shoulders is health research standing on? Determining the key actors and contents of the prevailing biomedical research agenda

Testoni, Federico E; García Carrillo, MercedesIcon ; Gagnon, Marc André; Rikap, Cecilia AlejandraIcon ; Blaustein Kappelmacher, MatiasIcon
Fecha de publicación: 04/2021
Editorial: Public Library of Science
Revista: Plos One
ISSN: 1932-6203
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de recurso: Artículo publicado
Clasificación temática:
Ciencias Biomédicas Sociales; Ciencias Sociales Interdisciplinarias; Filosofía, Historia y Filosofía de la Ciencia y la Tecnología

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Background: Conflicts of interest in biomedical research can influence research results and drive research agendas away from public health priorities. Previous agenda-setting studies share two shortfalls: they only account for direct connections between academic institutions and firms, as well as potential bias based on researchers’ personal beliefs. This paper’s goal is to determine the key actors and contents of the prevailing health and biomedical sciences (HBMS) research agenda, overcoming these shortfalls. Methods: We performed a bibliometric and lexical analysis of 95,415 scientific articles published between 1999 and 2018 in the highest impact factor journals within HBMS, using the Web of Science database and the CorText platform. HBMS’s prevailing knowledge network of institutions was proxied with network maps where nodes represent affiliations and edges the most frequent co-authorships. The content of the prevailing HBMS research agenda was depicted through network maps of prevalent multi-terms found in titles, keywords, and abstracts. Results: The HBMS research agendas of large private firms and leading academic institutions are intertwined. The prevailing HBMS agenda is mostly based on molecular biology (40% of the most frequent multi-terms), with an inclination towards cancer and cardiovascular research (15 and 8% of the most frequent multi-terms, respectively). Studies on pathogens and biological vectors related to recent epidemics are marginal (1% of the most frequent multi-terms). Content of the prevailing HBMS research agenda prioritizes research on pharmacological intervention over research on socio-environmental factors influencing disease onset or progression and overlooks, among others, the study of infectious diseases. Conclusions: Pharmaceutical corporations contribute to set HBMS’s prevailing research agenda, which is mainly focused on a few diseases and research topics. A more balanced research agenda, together with epistemological approaches that consider socio-environmental factors associated with disease spreading, could contribute to being better prepared to prevent and treat more diverse pathologies and to improve overall health outcomes.
Palabras clave: BIOMEDICINE AND HEALTH , CANCER , PHARMACEUTICAL CORPORATIONS
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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/162497
URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0249661
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0249661
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Testoni, Federico E; García Carrillo, Mercedes; Gagnon, Marc André; Rikap, Cecilia Alejandra; Blaustein Kappelmacher, Matias; Whose shoulders is health research standing on? Determining the key actors and contents of the prevailing biomedical research agenda; Public Library of Science; Plos One; 16; 11; 4-2021; 1-17
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