Migration Health Division, International Organization for Migration, Makati City, Philippines.
Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
BMJ Open. 2024 Jun 10;14(6):e080729. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-080729.
Migration and health are key priorities in global health and essential for protecting and promoting the health of migrants. To better understand the existing evidence on migration health, it is critical to map the research publication activity and evidence on the health of migrants and mobile populations. This paper presents a search strategy protocol for a bibliometric analysis of scientific articles on global migration health (GMH), leveraging the expertise of a global network of researchers and academics. The protocol aims to facilitate the mapping of research and evidence on the health of international migrants and their families, including studies on human mobility across international borders.
A systematic search strategy using Scopus will be developed to map scientific articles on GMH. The search strategy will build upon a previous bibliometric study and will have two main search components: (1) 'international migrant population', covering specific movements across international borders, and (2) 'health'. The final search strategy will be implemented to determine the final set of articles to be screened for the bibliometric analysis. Title and abstract screening will exclude irrelevant articles and classify the relevant articles according to predefined themes and subthemes. A combination of the following approaches will be used in screening: applying full automation (ie, DistillerSR's machine learning tool) and/or semiautomation (ie, EndNote, MS Excel) tools, and manual screening. The relevant articles will be analysed using MS Excel, Biblioshiny and VOSviewer, which creates a visual mapping of the research publication activity around GMH. This protocol is developed in collaboration with academic researchers and policymakers from the Global South, and a network of migration health and research experts, with guidance from a bibliometrics expert.
The protocol will use publicly available data and will not directly involve human participants; an ethics review will not be required. The findings from the bibliometric analysis (and other research that can potentially arise from the protocol) will be disseminated through academic publications, conferences and collaboration with relevant stakeholders to inform policies and interventions aimed at improving the health of international migrants and their families.
移民和健康是全球卫生的重点，对于保护和促进移民健康至关重要。为了更好地了解移民健康方面的现有证据，必须绘制关于移民和流动人口健康的研究出版物活动和证据图。本文提出了一项文献计量分析的搜索策略协议，该协议利用全球研究人员和学者网络的专业知识，研究全球移徙健康（GMH）方面的科学文章。该协议旨在促进对国际移民及其家庭健康的研究和证据的绘制，包括跨越国际边界的人类流动研究。
将使用 Scopus 开发一个系统的搜索策略，以绘制关于 GMH 的科学文章。该搜索策略将建立在前一份文献计量研究的基础上，并有两个主要的搜索组成部分：（1）“国际移民人口”，涵盖跨越国际边界的特定移民流动；（2）“健康”。最终的搜索策略将被实施，以确定将被筛选用于文献计量分析的最终文章集。标题和摘要筛选将排除不相关的文章，并根据预先确定的主题和子主题对相关文章进行分类。筛选将使用以下方法的组合：应用完全自动化（即，DistillerSR 的机器学习工具）和/或半自动化（即，EndNote、MS Excel）工具，以及手动筛选。将使用 MS Excel、Biblioshiny 和 VOSviewer 分析相关文章，这些工具可创建围绕 GMH 的研究出版物活动的可视化映射。本协议是与来自南方国家的学术研究人员和政策制定者以及移民健康和研究专家网络合作制定的，并得到了一位文献计量学专家的指导。
该协议将使用公开可用的数据，并且不会直接涉及人类参与者；不需要伦理审查。文献计量分析的结果（以及可能由该协议产生的其他研究）将通过学术出版物、会议以及与相关利益攸关方的合作进行传播，以告知旨在改善国际移民及其家庭健康的政策和干预措施。
