Second publication this month in BMC Health Research Policy and Systems

This paper, “Health Policy and Systems Research Collaboration Pathways: Lessons from a Network Science Analysis“, used network analysis to examine health policy and systems research (HPSR) bibliometric data. The results demonstrate the evolution in collaboration over time, among co-authors and their respective countries, by the World Bank’s economic classification.

During the early inception of HPSR, authors from high-income countries (HIC) were dominant and necessary to connect the network. In the 1990-2015 cumulative interval, authors from upper-middle-income countries (UpperMIC) became increasingly influential in HPSR. This emergent pattern has helped the UpperMIC shape the global structure of the HPSR co-authorship network, on par with HIC. More importantly, this emergent cluster acts as a hub to connect more authors from all economic regions