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| Title |
Composition, training needs and independence of ethics review committees across Africa: are the gate-keepers rising to the emerging challenges?
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Journal of Medical Ethics, February 2009
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| DOI | 10.1136/jme.2008.025189 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
A Nyika, W Kilama, R Chilengi, G Tangwa, P Tindana, P Ndebele, J Ikingura |
| Abstract |
The high disease burden of Africa, the emergence of new diseases and efforts to address the 10/90 gap have led to an unprecedented increase in health research activities in Africa. Consequently, there is an increase in the volume and complexity of protocols that ethics review committees in Africa have to review. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profile of 1 X user who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Scientists | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 120 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 2 | 2% |
| Austria | 1 | <1% |
| Sierra Leone | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Cambodia | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 114 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 21 | 18% |
| Researcher | 20 | 17% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 14 | 12% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 9 | 8% |
| Other | 8 | 7% |
| Other | 24 | 20% |
| Unknown | 24 | 20% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 27 | 23% |
| Social Sciences | 15 | 13% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 10 | 8% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 8 | 7% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 5 | 4% |
| Other | 27 | 23% |
| Unknown | 28 | 23% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 February 2021.
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#8,139,379
of 25,836,587 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Medical Ethics
#2,248
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#36,952
of 109,597 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Medical Ethics
#6
of 14 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,836,587 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 67th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,703 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 24.2. This one is in the 38th percentile – i.e., 38% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 14 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 57% of its contemporaries.