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| Title |
Evaluating institutional capacity for research ethics in Africa: a case study from Botswana
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Medical Ethics, July 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6939-14-31 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Adnan A Hyder, Waleed Zafar, Joseph Ali, Robert Ssekubugu, Paul Ndebele, Nancy Kass |
| Abstract |
The increase in the volume of research conducted in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMIC), has brought a renewed international focus on processes for ethical conduct of research. Several programs have been initiated to strengthen the capacity for research ethics in LMIC. However, most such programs focus on individual training or development of ethics review committees. The objective of this paper is to present an approach to institutional capacity assessment in research ethics and application of this approach in the form of a case study from an institution in Africa. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 8 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 25% |
| Germany | 1 | 13% |
| Unknown | 5 | 63% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 38% |
| Scientists | 2 | 25% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 25% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 13% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 110 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Malaysia | 1 | <1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| Sierra Leone | 1 | <1% |
| South Africa | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 106 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 17 | 15% |
| Researcher | 15 | 14% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 14 | 13% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 8 | 7% |
| Other | 7 | 6% |
| Other | 25 | 23% |
| Unknown | 24 | 22% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 23 | 21% |
| Social Sciences | 14 | 13% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 12 | 11% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 11 | 10% |
| Psychology | 6 | 5% |
| Other | 18 | 16% |
| Unknown | 26 | 24% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 89. 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 26 April 2020.
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#400,635
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Outputs from BMC Medical Ethics
#18
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#3,149
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#2
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