Research Collaborations and Quality in Research: Foes or Friends?

The aim of the present case study is to illustrate the outcomes of a dedicated allied health (AH) research position within a large Queensland regional and rural health service. The secondary aim of the case study is to describe the enabling and hindering mechanisms to the success of the role. Semistructured interviews were conducted with the Executive Director of Allied Health and the current AH research fellow incumbent within the health service. A focus group was also undertaken with six stakeholders (e.g. clinicians, team leaders) who had engaged with the research position. Outcomes of the AH research fellow included clinical and service improvements, enhanced research culture and staff up-skilling, development of research infrastructure and the formation of strategic research collaborations. Despite being a sole position in a geographically expansive health service with constrained resources, key enabling mechanisms to the success of the role were identified, including strong advocacy and regular communication with the Executive. In conclusion, the case study highlights the potential value of an AH research position in building research capacity within a large non-metropolitan health service. Factors to facilitate ongoing success could include additional research and administrative funding, as well as increased use of technology and team-based research. What is known about the topic? Dedicated research positions embedded within health care settings are a well cited strategy to increase research capacity building of allied health professionals (AHPs). However the majority of these positions are within metropolitan health settings and unique challenges exist for these roles in regional and rural areas. Few studies have described the impact of dedicated AH research positions within regional health centres or the factors which facilitate or hinder their role. What does this paper add? Dedicated research positions within a non-metropolitan Australian health service may have a positive impact on AH clinical services, research culture, staff upskilling, research infrastructure and research collaborations. Key enabling mechanisms to support the role may include advocacy from higher level management, strong networks and communication channels. Additional research and administrative funding, the use of technology and team based research may enhance sustainability of such roles. What are the implications for practitioners? AH research positions have potential value in building research capacity within a large non-metropolitan health service. Health managers and researchers should be aware of the unique challenges to these roles and consider mechanisms that may best enhance and sustain outcomes of the positions including: the development of infrastructure (i.e. technology, website of resources), networks, and communication strategies (i.e. regular meetings with leadership and promotion internally).

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Shall I Work with Them? A Knowledge Graph-Based Approach for Predicting Future Research Collaborations

Entropy ◽

10.3390/e23060664 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 23 (6) ◽

pp. 664

Author(s):

Nikos Kanakaris ◽

Nikolaos Giarelis ◽

Ilias Siachos ◽

Nikos Karacapilidis

Keyword(s):

Language Processing ◽

Scientific Knowledge ◽

Link Prediction ◽

Performance Metrics ◽

Future Research ◽

Knowledge Graph ◽

Prediction Problem ◽

Textual Information ◽

Research Collaborations ◽

Processing Techniques

We consider the prediction of future research collaborations as a link prediction problem applied on a scientific knowledge graph. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work on the prediction of future research collaborations that combines structural and textual information of a scientific knowledge graph through a purposeful integration of graph algorithms and natural language processing techniques. Our work: (i) investigates whether the integration of unstructured textual data into a single knowledge graph affects the performance of a link prediction model, (ii) studies the effect of previously proposed graph kernels based approaches on the performance of an ML model, as far as the link prediction problem is concerned, and (iii) proposes a three-phase pipeline that enables the exploitation of structural and textual information, as well as of pre-trained word embeddings. We benchmark the proposed approach against classical link prediction algorithms using accuracy, recall, and precision as our performance metrics. Finally, we empirically test our approach through various feature combinations with respect to the link prediction problem. Our experimentations with the new COVID-19 Open Research Dataset demonstrate a significant improvement of the abovementioned performance metrics in the prediction of future research collaborations.

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Public Administration and Values Oriented to Sustainability: A Systematic Approach to the Literature

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13052566 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (5) ◽

pp. 2566

Author(s):

Isabel Marques ◽

João Leitão ◽

Alba Carvalho ◽

Dina Pereira

Keyword(s):

Public Administration ◽

Future Research ◽

Main Research ◽

Sustainable Performance ◽

Future Research Agenda ◽

Research Collaborations ◽

Work Area ◽

The Social ◽

The Usa ◽

The University

Values guide actions and judgements, form the basis of attitudinal and behavioral processes, and have an impact on leaders’ decision-making, contributing to more sustainable performance. Through a bibliometric study and content analysis, 2038 articles were selected from Scopus, from the period 1994–2021, presenting global research tendencies on the subject of values, public administration, and sustainability. The results indicate that Sustainability is the most productive journal, the main research category is in social sciences, the most productive institution is the University of Queensland, the location with the most publications and research collaborations is the USA, and the authors with the greatest number of articles are Chung, from Chung-Ang University; García-Sánchez, from the University of Salamanca; and Pérez, from the University of Cantabria. Analysis of keywords shows that the most relevant are “sustainability”, “CSR”, “sustainable development”, “innovation”, and “leadership”. Time analysis of keywords reveals a tendency for lines of research in the social and work area. The results also provide data about the framing of studies in sustainability pillars and the types of values referred to and indicate the main areas of public administration studied. Finally, a future research agenda is proposed.

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Research Equity in Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery

OTO Open ◽

10.1177/2473974x211024145 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 2473974X2110241

Author(s):

Rolvix Harlan Patterson ◽

Mary Jue Xu ◽

Samuel Okerosi ◽

Mahmood F. Bhutta ◽

Carolina Der ◽

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Keyword(s):

Global Health ◽

Head And Neck ◽

Capacity Building ◽

Neck Surgery ◽

Head And Neck Surgery ◽

Disproportionate Representation ◽

Local Representation ◽

Health Literature ◽

Research Collaborations ◽

Surgery Research

Equitable research collaborations benefit the quality and relevance of global otolaryngology–head and neck surgery research. However, analyses of existing global health literature have shown disproportionate representation by foreign authors. To avert this inequity and improve global otolaryngology–head and neck surgery research, we propose a framework that emphasizes local representation and capacity building in research.

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