Distant Reader - journal-bmjGlobHealth-cord

Introduction

This is a Distant Reader "study carrel", a set of structured data intended to help the student, researcher, or scholar use & understand a corpus.

This study carrel was created on 2021-05-30 by Eric Morgan <emorgan@nd.edu>. The carrel was created using the Distant Reader cord process, and the input was the result of a query applied to a local mirror of CORD, a data set of scholarly articles on the topic of COVID-19. The actual query was: facet_journal:"BMJ Glob Health". The results of this query were saved in a cache and transformed into a set of plain text files. All of the analysis -- "reading" -- has been done against these plain text files. For example, a short narrative report has been created. This Web page is a more verbose version of that report.

All study carrels are self-contained -- no Internet connection is necessary to use them. Download this carrel for offline reading. The carrel is made up of many subdirectories and data files. The manifest describes each one in greater detail.

Size

There are 40 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 104,054 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 3,716 words long. If you dig deeper, then you might want to save yourself some time by reading a shorter item. On the other hand, if your desire is for more detail, then you might consider reading a longer item. The following charts illustrate the overall size of the carrel.

Readability

On a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 is very difficult and 100 is very easy, the documents have an average readability score of 49. Consequently, if you want to read something more simplistic, then consider a document with a higher score. If you want something more specialized, then consider something with a lower score. The following charts illustrate the overall readability of the carrel.

Word Frequencies

By merely counting & tabulating the frequency of individual words or phrases, you can begin to get an understanding of the carrel's "aboutness". Excluding "stop words", some of the more frequent words include:

health, covid, global, countries, care, system, community, disease, healthcare, data, research, public, also, may, pandemic, study, services, response, risk, transmission, social, use, control, income, ebola, cov, national, security, outbreak, access, systems, workers, based, will, support, case, world, human, one, policy, development, time, respiratory, coronavirus, within, new, high, infection, africa, international

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are The COVID-19 pandemic: diverse contexts; different epidemics—how and why?, Voices from the frontline: findings from a thematic analysis of a rapid online global survey of maternal and newborn health professionals facing the COVID-19 pandemic, and Community health workers in Ghana: the need for greater policy attention.

The most frequent two-word phrases (bigrams) include:

global health, health system, public health, health security, health systems, income countries, respiratory syndrome, health services, bmj global, health workers, world health, community health, middle east, mental health, health organization, east respiratory, syndrome coronavirus, health care, open access, migrant workers, burkina faso, universal health, saharan africa, health coverage, sierra leone, health zones, disease control, health service, terrorist attacks, glob health, bmj glob, acute respiratory, doc id, cord uid, health doi, infectious diseases, health facilities, ev gh, face mask, systematic review, human rights, healthcare services, social distancing, severe acute, infectious disease, west africa, mobile phones, ebola outbreak, peer review, competing interests

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Health system governance: welcoming the reboot Global health degrees: at what cost?, and Cuba y seguridad sanitaria mundial: Cuba’s role in global health security.

While often deemed superficial or sophomoric, rudimentary frequencies and their associated "word clouds" can be quite insightful:

Keywords

Sets of keywords -- statistically significant words -- can be enumerated by comparing the relative frequency of words with the number of times the words appear in an entire corpus. Some of the most statistically significant keywords in the carrel include:

health, covid-19, ebola, global, china, africa, worker, transmission, system, sars, evd, disease, care, uhc, syria, south, social, sierra, security, right, respiratory, research, reform, pure, ptsd, priority, poor, phone, pacific, nisss, ncd, msf, model, mobile, mnh, middle, mers, medicine, material, mask, manager, kuwait, itn, irs, investment, income, ifr, hiv, hic, governance

And now word clouds really begin to shine:

Topic Modeling

Topic modeling is another popular approach to connoting the aboutness of a corpus. If the study carrel could be summed up in a single word, then that word might be health, and The Al Hol camp in Northeast Syria: health and humanitarian challenges is most about that word.

If the study carrel could be summed up in three words ("topics") then those words and their significantly associated titles include:

If the study carrel could be summed up in five topics, and each topic were each denoted with three words, then those topics and their most significantly associated files would be:

health, covid, cov - The COVID-19 pandemic: diverse contexts; different epidemics—how and why?
health, covid, data - Effects of terrorist attacks on access to maternal healthcare services: a national longitudinal study in Burkina Faso
health, system, security - Community health workers in Ghana: the need for greater policy attention
health, global, covid - Voices from the frontline: findings from a thematic analysis of a rapid online global survey of maternal and newborn health professionals facing the COVID-19 pandemic
quality, surgical, medicines - Europe should lead in coordinated procurement of quality-assured medicines for programmes in low-income and middle-income countries

Moreover, the totality of the study carrel's aboutness, can be visualized with the following pie chart:

Noun & Verbs

Through an analysis of your study carrel's parts-of-speech, you are able to answer question beyonds aboutness. For example, a list of the most frequent nouns helps you answer what questions; "What is discussed in this collection?":

health, countries, care, system, community, healthcare, data, disease, research, pandemic, services, study, response, risk, transmission, income, workers, outbreak, systems, use, security, control, access, case, time, people, policy, infection, analysis, population, medicines, cases, evidence, coronavirus, level, review, impact, development, epidemic, virus, quality, chws, work, country, measures, effects, policies, patients, authors, information

An enumeration of the verbs helps you learn what actions take place in a text or what the things in the text do. Very frequently, the most common lemmatized verbs are "be", "have", and "do"; the more interesting verbs usually occur further down the list of frequencies:

including, used, provided, based, make, reduce, identifies, supporting, increased, required, give, reported, need, develop, showed, led, remain, improving, implement, take, living, ensuring, worked, following, affected, conducted, addressed, suggested, testing, existing, associated, build, see, relating, known, contributed, achieve, emerged, compared, distributed, consider, defined, strengthen, involved, find, declared, create, receive, assessed, understand

Proper Nouns

An extraction of proper nouns helps you determine the names of people and places in your study carrel.

Health, COVID-19, Ebola, China, Africa, Global, MERS, SARS, BMJ, Cuba, World, Ghana, EVD, CoV, CoV-2, WHO, UHC, East, ACoDD, NCD, FCP, org/, Organization, Middle, CVD, CI, Sierra, Faso, Burkina, Leone, International, South, HIV, SimEx, West, National, http://, Development, Glob, PTSD, United, IFR, Republic, India, Research, US, LMIC, sha, Disease, Asia

An analysis of personal pronouns enables you to answer at least two questions: 1) "What, if any, is the overall gender of my study carrel?", and 2) "To what degree are the texts in my study carrel self-centered versus inclusive?"

we, their, it, they, our, its, them, i, us, themselves, itself, you, her, your, my, she, me, his, he, one, thee, oneself, thy, thine, ourselves, infection, cord-325396-ot7pvexv, 's

Below are words cloud of your study carrel's proper & personal pronouns.

Adjectives & Verbs

Learning about a corpus's adjectives and adverbs helps you answer how questions: "How are things described and how are things done?" An analysis of adjectives and adverbs also points to a corpus's overall sentiment. "In general, is my study carrel positive or negative?"

global, public, social, national, human, many, high, respiratory, new, different, available, low, medical, covid-19, international, primary, non, maternal, essential, key, effective, clinical, important, specific, first, infectious, middle, current, universal, local, lower, mental, open, higher, severe, financial, poor, large, economic, critical, limited, cuban, migrant, potential, possible, general, early, collective, several, acute

also, however, well, even, often, now, especially, still, particularly, therefore, globally, first, already, rather, less, together, moreover, significantly, potentially, directly, rapidly, properly, just, currently, largely, indeed, widely, recently, yet, second, better, typically, worldwide, non, nearly, likely, generally, commercially, least, externally, almost, usually, much, long, highly, quickly, prior, frequently, far, substantially

Next steps

There is much more to a study carrel than the things outlined above. Use this page's menubar to navigate and explore in more detail. There you will find additional features & functions including: ngrams, parts-of-speech, grammars, named entities, topic modeling, a simple search interface, etc.

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