Browsing by Author "Ramirez, Mirian"

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    184 Cross-institutional collaborations for health equity research at a CTSA
    (Cambridge University Press, 2022-04-19) Whipple, Elizabeth C.; Ramirez, Mirian; Dolan, Levi; Hunt, Joe D.; Ruth Lilly Medical Library, School of Medicine
    OBJECTIVES/GOALS: We were interested in health equity research for each CTSA-affiliated institution, specifically focusing on cross department and cross-campus co-authorship. We conducted a bibliometric analysis of our CTSA-funded papers relating to diversity and inclusion to identify cross department and cross-campus collaborations. METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: We worked with our CTSAs Racial Justice, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Task Force to conduct an environmental scan of diversity and inclusion research across our CTSA partner institutions. Using the Scopus database, searches were constructed to identify and retrieve the variety of affiliations for each of the CTSA authors, a health equity/health disparities search hedge, and all of our CTSA grant numbers. We limited the dates from the beginning of our CTSA in 2008-November 2021. We used PubMed to retrieve all MeSH terms for the articles. We used Excel to analyze the data, Python and NCBIs Entrez Programming Utilities to analyze MeSH terms, and VOSviewer to produce the visualizations. RESULTS/ANTICIPATED RESULTS: The results of this search yielded 94 articles overall. We broke these up into subsets (not mutually exclusive) to represent five of the researcher groups across our CTSA. We analyzed the overall dataset for citation count, normalized citation count, CTSA average authors, gender trends, and co-term analysis. We also developed cross department co-authorship maps and cross-institutional/group co-authorship maps. DISCUSSION/SIGNIFICANCE: This poster will demonstrate both the current areas where cross-departmental and cross-institutional collaboration exists among our CTSA authors, as well as identify potential existing areas for collaboration to occur. These findings may determine areas our CTSA can support to improve institutional performance in addressing health equity.
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    Abstract to Manuscript: Publishing Predictors of Abstracts Presented at the Medical Library Association Conferences
    (2021-05) Hinrichs, Rachel J.; Ramirez, Mirian; Ameen, Mahasin
    Objective We sought to determine how many abstracts presented at the 2012 and 2014 Medical Library Association (MLA) annual conferences were later published as full-text journal articles, and what features of the abstract and author influence the likelihood of future publication. To do so, we replicated a previous study on MLA conference abstracts presented in 2002 and 2003. The secondary objective was to compare the publication rates between the prior and current study. Methods Presentations and posters delivered at the 2012 and 2014 MLA meetings were coded to identify factors associated with publication. Post-conference publication of abstracts as journal articles was determined using a literature search and survey sent to first authors. Chi-squared tests were used to assess differences in the publication rate, and logistic regression was used to assess the influence of abstract factors on publication. Results The combined publication rate for the 2012 and 2014 meetings was 21.8% (137/628 abstracts), which is a statistically significant decrease compared to the previously reported rate for 2002 and 2003 (27.6%, 122/442 abstracts). The odds that an abstract would later be published as a journal article increased if the abstract was multi-institutional or if it was research, specifically surveys or mixed methods research. Conclusions The lower publication rate of MLA conference abstracts may be due to an increased number of program or non-research abstracts that were accepted or a more competitive peer review process for journals. MLA could increase the publication rate by encouraging and enabling multi-institutional research projects among its members.
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    Bibliometric analysis of publications on healthcare disparities among sexual and gender minorities: an exploratory study
    (2020-10-01) Ramirez, Mirian; Craven, Hannah J.
    Academic and scientific literature related to healthcare disparities among sexual and gender minorities has increased significantly over the past decade. For this study, a bibliometric analysis will be applied to examine the characteristics, as well as the growth and authorship patterns of worldwide research output, addressing issues related to barriers and disparities of the availability or access to medical services for the LGBTQ population. For this exploratory study, we used the Web of Science database, one of the most widely multidisciplinary databases, that provides the analytical tools for bibliometric calculations. For this analysis, we conducted a bibliographic search on the topic of healthcare disparities in order to collect the representative documents about the topic and to identify authors, document types, year of publications, sources, main thematic areas, most productive institutions, languages and most productive countries of research output. We used an open-source Bibliometrix/Biblioshiny R-package to conduct quantitative analysis. This approach aims to inform the development and trends of research outputs to understand what this research is focusing on, identify research productivity and topic trends.
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    Characterization of the highly cited articles published by a genetics research department: an exploratory study.
    (2021-05-24) Ramirez, Mirian; Whipple, Elizabeth C.
    OBJECTIVES: To identify and assess highly cited papers included in the Web of Science Essential Science Indicators, this study looked at authors affiliated with a specific department at a School of Medicine from 2010-2019. For this study, we examined authorship characteristics, including female authorship trends, subject trends, and intramural and extramural co-authorship networks. This approach aims to highlight research impact trends to inform the department's leaders in decision-making for future publication and research strategy development directions. METHODS: We conducted a bibliometric analysis of publications from faculty in a specific department at a School of Medicine over the last ten years (2010-2019). The searches were conducted in June 2020. We used a three-phase approach to find those departmental articles ranked as "highly cited papers" in the Web of Science (WoS) "Essential Science Indicators" database: Phase 1. We queried Scopus to gather publications listing the author's departmental affiliation; Phase 2. Queried the WoS Core Collection for all the citations resulted in the Scopus search and limited the search to return only the publications identified as "Highly Cited" papers; Phase 3. Used PubMed to compile funding information due to its more standardized format of reported funding support. We utilized the OpenRefine tool to perform cleanup and cluster the author name lists and Excel to work with datasets of bibliometric data. CONCLUSIONS: For the 2010-2019 time frame, a total of 1,077 articles (original articles and review articles) were published by this department, with 37 documents identified as Highly Cited, categorized by WoS Essential Indicators. Identified documents were categorized under ten research fields and were published in 17 journals, from diverse WoS subject categories, including Neuroscience, Oncology, and Genetics research fields. The results show that Highly cited articles were published in 17 high-impact journals ranked in Q1 and Q2. Indicative of that, the highly cited papers have a strong relationship between the impact factors. 38% of the documents correspond to case-control studies. Topics covering "Genome-wide Association Study", "Genetic predisposition to disease," and Polymorphism, single nucleotide" are among the most used MeSH terms ."
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    Claim your online scholarly presence: Google Scholar
    (2020-03-06) Ramirez, Mirian; Craven, Hannah J.; Whipple, Elizabeth C.
    Claiming, maintaining, and tracking research output is crucial to a researcher’s continued visibility and impact. This workshop will cover several (ORCiD ID, MyNCBI, Google Scholar, ResearcherID) of the commonly used scholarly profile tools. Tracking scholarly output and cultivating information about a researcher's work is made possible with online scholarly profile tools. Attendees participated in hands on activities to set up profiles, and discover more information about tracking their impact going forward, and utilize existing connections between different scholarly profile tools. Learning objectives: • List reasons why maintaining scholarly profiles is important to researchers • Describe the benefits of several scholarly profile tools • Set up and/or update your scholarly profile(s)
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    Claim your online scholarly presence: ORCiD
    (2020-03-06) Craven, Hannah J.; Ramirez, Mirian; Whipple, Elizabeth C.
    Claiming, maintaining, and tracking research output is crucial to a researcher’s continued visibility and impact. Tracking scholarly output and cultivating information about a researcher's work is made possible with online scholarly profile tools. As the most widely accepted unique identifier for authors, ORCiD IDs are increasingly required for: paper submissions to journals, grant submissions, and various NIH research training and career development awards. Attendees participated in hands on activities to set up profiles, and discover more information about tracking their impact going forward, and utilize existing connections between different scholarly profile tools. Learning objectives: • List reasons why maintaining scholarly profiles is important to researchers • Describe the benefits of several scholarly profile tools • Set up and/or update your scholarly profile(s)
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    Cognitive Impairment and Insomnia in Celiac Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
    (Korean Society of Gastroenterology, 2024) Beas, Renato; Godoy, Ambar; Norwood, Dalton A.; Ascencio, Ysaith Orellana; Izquierdo-Veraza, Diego; Montalvan-Sanchez, Eleazar E.; Ramirez, Mirian; Kurada, Satya; Medicine, School of Medicine
    Emerging evidence suggests a broader spectrum of celiac disease (CeD) system involvement, including neurological manifestations. We aimed to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of the available evidence from studies assessing the association of cognitive impairment and insomnia with CeD. A total of 259 participants with CeD were included in the studies investigating insomnia and 179 were included in studies investigating cognitive impairment. The overall pooled odds ratio for insomnia in patients with CeD was 1.83 (95% confidence interval, 1.38 to 2.42; I2=0.00%). The present study provides valuable insights into the available evidence from studies investigating cognitive impairment in patients with CeD and our systematic review and meta-analysis revealed a significant association between CeD and insomnia.
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    Cross-institutional collaborations for health equity research at a CTSA
    (2022-04-20) Whipple, Elizabeth C.; Ramirez, Mirian; Dolan, Levi; Hunt, Joe D.
    Objective/Goals: We were interested in health equity research for each CTSA-affiliated institution, specifically focusing on cross department and cross-campus co-authorship. We conducted a bibliometric analysis of our CTSA-funded papers relating to diversity and inclusion to identify cross department and cross-campus collaborations. Methods/Study Population: We worked with our CTSA’s Racial Justice, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Task Force to conduct an environmental scan of diversity and inclusion research across our CTSA partner institutions. Using the Scopus database, searches were constructed to identify and retrieve the variety of affiliations for each of the CTSA authors, a health equity/health disparities search hedge, and all of our CTSA grant numbers. We limited the dates from the beginning of our CTSA in 2008-November 2021. We used PubMed to retrieve all MeSH terms for the articles. We used Excel to analyze the data, Python and NCBI’s Entrez Programming Utilities to analyze MeSH terms, and VOSviewer to produce the visualizations. Results/Anticipated Results: The results of this search yielded 94 articles overall. We broke these up into subsets (not mutually exclusive) to represent five of the researcher groups across our CTSA. We analyzed the overall dataset for citation count, normalized citation count, CTSA average authors, gender trends, and co-term analysis. We also developed cross department co-authorship maps and cross-institutional/group co-authorship maps. Discussion/Significance of Impact: This poster will demonstrate both the current areas where cross-departmental and cross-institutional collaboration exists among our CTSA authors, as well as identify potential existing areas for collaboration to occur. These findings may determine areas our CTSA can support to improve institutional performance in addressing health equity.
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    Examining adherence to oral anticancer medications through a human factors engineering framework: Protocol for a scoping review
    (PLOS, 2022-09-22) Lin, Irene D.; Shotts, Matthew B.; Al-Hader, Ahmad; Weddle, Kellie Jones; Holden, Richard J.; Mueller, Emily L.; Macik, Monica R.; Ramirez, Mirian; Abebe, Ephrem; Medicine, School of Medicine
    Background The number of oral anticancer medications has increased over the past few decades, opening new possibilities in cancer care and improving convenience for patients and caregivers. However, adherence levels continue to be suboptimal, potentially jeopardizing therapeutic benefits. Poor adherence levels may indicate gaps in current strategies and interventions aimed at enhancing medication adherence and the extent to which they address the complex and multi-faceted medication management needs of patients and their caregivers. Beyond commonly understood barriers (e.g., forgetting to take medications), adherence interventions must address systemic barriers that may not be fully appreciated by members of the healthcare system. This scoping review aims to apply a systems framework (human factors engineering framework) to examine system elements targeted by adherence enhancing interventions. Methods Studies published in English, reporting adherence interventions for oral anticancer medications with adherence and/or persistence as primary outcome measures will be included in this review. We will search the following electronic databases with no limits on dates: Ovid MEDLINE, Cochrane Library, Web of Science Core Collection, Embase, CINAHL Complete, PsycInfo, and Scopus. Two reviewers will independently screen study titles and abstracts for inclusion with a third reviewer adjudicating conflicts. Full text of included articles will be used to extract information on systemic barriers targeted by adherence interventions as well as information about intervention type, outcomes, and study characteristics. Extracted information will be synthesized to generate a summary of work system factors targeted by adherence interventions. Discussion Through application of a systems-based approach, this scoping review is expected to shed light on the complex and multifaceted nature of factors influencing adherence to oral anticancer agents. The review may also identify areas that are ripe for further research.
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    Exploring the publishing patterns and journal use of Graduate Medical Education (GME) residents in a large medical school
    (Midwest Chapter of the Medical Library Association, 2023-10-13) Ralston, Rick K.; Stumpff, Julia C.; Ramirez, Mirian
    OBJECTIVE: Graduate Medical Education residents are often encouraged or required to publish their scholarship, and librarians are asked for assistance during that process. We investigated the publication patterns of residents and the journals they cite in their publications. This knowledge will help librarians better instruct residents and inform collection development efforts that support resident publishing. METHODS: Residents who completed their training between July 1, 2018, and June 30, 2019, were searched in Scopus. Included in this analysis were case studies/series, original research, or review articles authored by residents affiliated with our institution and published from one year after the trainee start date to 18 months after the trainee termination date. The analysis included journals in which residents published, number of publications, number of residents publishing, number of citations per publication, distribution of publishing among programs, journals cited within publications, months from start date to first publication, and subject area impact of journals in which residents published. RESULTS: Of 266 residents analyzed, 34% published at least one article. The 291 articles included in the study appeared in 188 different journals. The surgery department had the most publications and citations. Urology and Otolaryngology tied for most publications per resident with 8.33. Otolaryngology had the most citations per resident with 110.7. The top 20 journals cited in resident publications were cited 50 times or more. The median time to publication of residents' first article was 38.6 months. 48% of journals in which residents published ranked in the top 50% of their category by JIF. CONCLUSIONS: GME residents publish in a wide variety of journals, and almost half of residents' articles are published in high-impact journals (Q1 & Q2) in their subject area. A majority of residents published between 2-4 years after their start date. Libraries might provide guidance about publishing original research to support their scholarly publishing. Further, libraries can evaluate if their collections meet their residents’ research needs by examining journals cited in residents’ publications.