Using Co-authorship Networks to Map and Analyse Global Neglected Tropical Disease Research with an Affiliation to Germany

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Bender, Max Ernst ^a,b   Edwards, Suzanne ^c   von Philipsborn, Peter ^b,d   Steinbeis, Fridolin ^a,b   Keil, Thomas ^a   Tinnemann, Peter ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Universities Allied for Essential Medicines Europe eV (UAEM)   (Germany)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTHOR; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; CHAGAS DISEASE; DISEASE ASSESSMENT; GERMANY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEISHMANIASIS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEGLECTED DISEASE; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PUBLICATION; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SOCIAL NETWORK; TROPICAL DISEASE; TRYPANOSOMATID INFECTION; BIBLIOMETRICS; BRAZIL; FACTUAL DATABASE; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; ORGANIZATION; PERSONNEL; TROPICAL MEDICINE; WRITING;

ACADEMIES AND INSTITUTES; AUTHORSHIP; BIBLIOMETRICS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; BRAZIL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; GERMANY; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; NEGLECTED DISEASES; PUBLICATIONS; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; TROPICAL MEDICINE;

EID: 84953317587     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004182     Document Type: Article

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