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

<h4>Background</h4>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 f...

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Autores principales:	Federico E Testoni, Mercedes García Carrillo, Marc-André Gagnon, Cecilia Rikap, Matías Blaustein
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:d0cd7acc1bfc43739aadc8cc7f209e952021-12-02T20:11:26ZWhose shoulders is health research standing on? Determining the key actors and contents of the prevailing biomedical research agenda.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0249661https://doaj.org/article/d0cd7acc1bfc43739aadc8cc7f209e952021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0249661https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203<h4>Background</h4>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.<h4>Methods</h4>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.<h4>Results</h4>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.<h4>Conclusions</h4>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.Federico E TestoniMercedes García CarrilloMarc-André GagnonCecilia RikapMatías BlausteinPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 4, p e0249661 (2021)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Federico E Testoni Mercedes García Carrillo Marc-André Gagnon Cecilia Rikap Matías Blaustein Whose shoulders is health research standing on? Determining the key actors and contents of the prevailing biomedical research agenda.
description	<h4>Background</h4>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.<h4>Methods</h4>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.<h4>Results</h4>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.<h4>Conclusions</h4>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.
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title	Whose shoulders is health research standing on? Determining the key actors and contents of the prevailing biomedical research agenda.
title_short	Whose shoulders is health research standing on? Determining the key actors and contents of the prevailing biomedical research agenda.
title_full	Whose shoulders is health research standing on? Determining the key actors and contents of the prevailing biomedical research agenda.
title_fullStr	Whose shoulders is health research standing on? Determining the key actors and contents of the prevailing biomedical research agenda.
title_full_unstemmed	Whose shoulders is health research standing on? Determining the key actors and contents of the prevailing biomedical research agenda.
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publishDate	2021
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Whose shoulders is health research standing on? Determining the key actors and contents of the prevailing biomedical research agenda.

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