TY  - JOUR
A1  - Brüggmann, Dörthe
A1  - Alafi, Annahita
A1  - Jaque, Jenny
A1  - Klingelhöfer, Doris
A1  - Bendels, Michael Hans Karl
A1  - Ohlendorf, Daniela Maren
A1  - Quarcoo, David
A1  - Louwen, Frank
A1  - Ingles, Sue A.
A1  - Wanke, Eileen M.
A1  - Groneberg, Jan David Alexander
T1  - World-wide research architecture of vitamin D research : density-equalizing mapping studies and socio-economic analysis
T2  - Nutrition journal
N2  - Background: Despite the numerous associations of vitamin D with health and disease, vitamin D deficiency is still common from a global perspective. While basic research, clinical and preventive activities grow constantly in vitamin D research, there is no in-depth analysis of the related global scientific productivity available so far.
Methods: Density equalizing mapping procedures (DEMP) were combined with socioeconomic benchmarks using the NewQIS platform.
Results: A total of 25,992 vitamin D-related research articles were identified between 1900 to 2014 with a significant increase (r2 = .6541) from 1900 to 2014. Authors located in Northern America – especially in the USA – distributed the majority of global vitamin D research, followed by their Western European counterparts. DEMP-analysis illustrates that Africa and South America exhibit only minor scientific productivity. Among high-income group countries, Scandinavian nations such as Denmark or Finland (2147.9 and 1607.7 vitamin D articles per GDP in 1000 billion USD) were highly active with regard to socioeconomic figures.
Conclusion: Networks dedicated to vitamin D research are present around the world. Overall, the Northern American and Western European nations occupy prominent positions. However, South American, African and Asian countries apart from Japan only play a minor role in the global research production related to vitamin D. Since vitamin D deficiency is currently increasing in the Americas, Europe and parts of the Middle East, research in these regions may need to be encouraged.
KW  - Vitamin D
KW  - Density equalizing mapping
KW  - Research architecture
Y1  - 2018
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/45334
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-453344
SN  - 1475-2891
N1  - © The Author(s). 2018 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
VL  - 17
IS  - 1, Art. 3
SP  - 1
EP  - 12
PB  - BioMed Central
CY  - London
ER  -