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Evolution of research in health geographics through the International Journal of Health Geographics (2002–2015)

Overview of attention for article published in International Journal of Health Geographics, January 2016
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Title
Evolution of research in health geographics through the International Journal of Health Geographics (2002–2015)
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International Journal of Health Geographics, January 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12942-016-0032-1
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Sandra Pérez, Vincent Laperrière, Marion Borderon, Cindy Padilla, Gilles Maignant, Sébastien Oliveau

Abstract

Health geographics is a fast-developing research area. Subjects broached in scientific literature are most varied, ranging from vectorial diseases to access to healthcare, with a recent revival of themes such as the implication of health in the Smart City, or a predominantly individual-centered approach. Far beyond standard meta-analyses, the present study deliberately adopts the standpoint of questioning space in its foundations, through various authors of the International Journal of Health Geographics, a highly influential journal in that field. The idea is to find space as the common denominator in this specialized literature, as well as its relation to spatial analysis, without for all that trying to tend towards exhaustive approaches. 660 articles have being published in the journal since launch, but 359 articles were selected based on the presence of the word "Space" in either the title, or the abstract or the text over 13 years of the journal's existence. From that database, a lexical analysis (tag cloud) reveals the perception of space in literature, and shows how approaches are evolving, thus underlining that the scope of health geographics is far from narrowing.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Australia 1 1%
Brazil 1 1%
Unknown 72 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 13 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 16%
Researcher 9 12%
Student > Bachelor 8 11%
Student > Postgraduate 5 7%
Other 12 16%
Unknown 15 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 13 18%
Computer Science 11 15%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 7%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 7%
Environmental Science 4 5%
Other 17 23%
Unknown 19 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. 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 11 April 2016.
All research outputs
#5,893,782
of 22,840,638 outputs
Outputs from International Journal of Health Geographics
#198
of 628 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#95,044
of 394,766 outputs
Outputs of similar age from International Journal of Health Geographics
#4
of 13 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,840,638 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 73rd percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 628 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 9.4. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 68% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 13 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 69% of its contemporaries.