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| Title |
Are students kidding with health research ethics? The case of HIV/AIDS research in Cameroon
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Medical Ethics, June 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6939-13-12 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Nchangwi Syntia Munung, Godfrey B Tangwa, Chi Primus Che, Laurent Vidal, Odile Ouwe-Missi-Oukem-Boyer |
| Abstract |
Universities in Cameroon are playing an active part in HIV/AIDS research and much of this research is carried out by students, usually for the purpose of a dissertation/thesis. Student theses/dissertations present research findings in a much more comprehensive manner and have been described as the stepping-stone of a budding scientist's potential in becoming an independent researcher. It is therefore important to verify how students handle issues of research ethics. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 5 | 63% |
| Canada | 1 | 13% |
| Mexico | 1 | 13% |
| Unknown | 1 | 13% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 7 | 88% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 13% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 56 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 4% |
| Cameroon | 1 | 2% |
| Sierra Leone | 1 | 2% |
| Brazil | 1 | 2% |
| Spain | 1 | 2% |
| Belgium | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 49 | 88% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 9 | 16% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 7 | 13% |
| Student > Master | 7 | 13% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 5 | 9% |
| Student > Bachelor | 5 | 9% |
| Other | 16 | 29% |
| Unknown | 7 | 13% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 15 | 27% |
| Social Sciences | 10 | 18% |
| Psychology | 5 | 9% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 5 | 9% |
| Arts and Humanities | 4 | 7% |
| Other | 10 | 18% |
| Unknown | 7 | 13% |
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 29 April 2013.
All research outputs
#5,931,816
of 22,668,244 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medical Ethics
#510
of 988 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#42,235
of 167,349 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Ethics
#4
of 12 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,668,244 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 988 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.5. This one is in the 48th percentile – i.e., 48% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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