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Often what researchers or health workers in developing countries need is information generated in their own country or other developing countries with a similar socio-economic context and with similar problems that need to be solved.
“Often what researchers or health workers in developing countries need is information generated in their own country or other developing countries with a similar socio-economic context and with similar problems that need to be solved (Kale 1994;Smith 2002).”
From Participation in the global knowledge commons: Challenges and opportunities for research dissemination in developing countries (2005) · cites this paper as Smith 2002
Only 2 per cent of the 3000 journals indexed on Medline are from developing countries.
“and only 2 per cent of the 3000 journals indexed on Medline are from developing countries (Smith 2002).”
From Participation in the global knowledge commons: Challenges and opportunities for research dissemination in developing countries (2005) · cites this paper as Smith 2002
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- Authors
- Smith, R.
- Affiliations
- British Medical Association (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Smith, Richard
- ORCID
- Smith, Richard
- Venue
- Statistics in Medicine
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2002-09-20
- Volume
- 21
- Issue
- 19
- Pages
- 2869-2877
- ISSN
- 0277-6715 (ISSN-L)
- 1097-0258
- OpenAlex
- W2081415809
- Cited by
- 40
- References
- 19
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 2 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 3
- FWCI
- 6.51
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Statistics in Medicine (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Academic Publishing and Open Access
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Publishing and Scholarly Communication
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › scientometrics and bibliometrics research
- Keywords
- research publishing, developing countries, scholarly publishing
- MeSH terms
- Bioethics, Developing Countries, Humans, International Cooperation, Public Health, Publishing
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