Kanmodi Kehinde Kazeem, Egbedina Eyinade Adeduntan, Amzat Jimoh, Aminu Kafayat, Nnyanzi Lawrence Achilles
School of Health and Life Sciences Teesside University Middlesbrough UK.
Cephas Health Research Initiative Inc Ibadan Nigeria.
Public Health Chall. 2023 Mar 3;2(1):e72. doi: 10.1002/puh2.72. eCollection 2023 Mar.
Human papillomavirus (HPV) research scholarship evaluation is pivotal to the strategic planning, implementation and sustainability of HPV prevention and control programmes in Africa. Hence, this study evaluated HPV research scholarship in Africa.
This review-a bibliometric analysis-investigated the trends, patterns, dynamics and funding of HPV-related literature production in Africa with a focus on the inequalities existing across thematic and subject areas, researchers, institutions and countries/territories/dependencies. The study data were obtained from SCOPUS database and analysed using the Microsoft Excel 2021 software.
From 1974 (inception year) till 16 July 2022, a total of 2587 SCOPUS-indexed literature on HPV were produced by African authors, with an average production rate of 50.5 publications per year (1974-2021). A few publications (1.2%) were in the Social Sciences. Most (95.1%) publications were in English, only a few (3.9%) were in French, whereas none was in Arabic, Portuguese, Spanish, Swahili or any other official language of the African Union. South Africa, Nigeria and Egypt were the three most prolific African countries. The 10 most prolific researchers were affiliated to public institutions in South Africa, Tanzania and Botswana. The top 10 funding sponsors were public institutions in the United States, the United Kingdom, Belgium and South Africa. Moreover, researchers and institutions affiliated to South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya and Uganda were the predominant beneficiaries. Only two indigenous journals made the list of top 10 journals publishing HPV research outputs from Africa.
Scholarly HPV research productivity in Africa is very low and worsened by multiple inequality gaps. There is an urgent need for equitably strengthening HPV research capacity in Africa.
人乳头瘤病毒（HPV）研究奖学金评估对于非洲HPV预防和控制项目的战略规划、实施及可持续性至关重要。因此，本研究对非洲的HPV研究奖学金进行了评估。
本综述——文献计量分析——调查了非洲HPV相关文献产出的趋势、模式、动态及资金情况，重点关注主题和学科领域、研究人员、机构以及国家/地区/属地之间存在的不平等现象。研究数据来自Scopus数据库，并使用Microsoft Excel 2021软件进行分析。
从1974年（起始年份）到2022年7月16日，非洲作者共发表了2587篇被Scopus索引的关于HPV的文献，1974年至2021年的平均年发表量为50.5篇。少数文献（1.2%）属于社会科学领域。大多数文献（95.1%）为英文，只有少数（3.9%）为法文，而没有一篇是阿拉伯文、葡萄牙文、西班牙文、斯瓦希里文或非洲联盟的任何其他官方语言。南非、尼日利亚和埃及是非洲发文量最高的三个国家。发文量最高的10位研究人员隶属于南非、坦桑尼亚和博茨瓦纳的公共机构。前10大资助机构是美国、英国、比利时和南非的公共机构。此外，隶属于南非、尼日利亚、肯尼亚和乌干达的研究人员和机构是主要受益者。在发表非洲HPV研究成果的前10大期刊中，只有两家本土期刊上榜。
非洲HPV学术研究产出非常低，且因多重不平等差距而恶化。迫切需要公平地加强非洲的HPV研究能力。
