Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health

The Korean Society for Preventive Medicine (대한예방의학회)
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Keywords Network Analysis of Articles in the North Korean Journal of Preventive Medicine $1997{\sim}2006$

북한예방의학회지 ($1997{\sim}2006$) 게재논문의 핵심어 네트워크 분석

  • Jung, Min-Soo (Department of Medical Sociology, Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University) ;
  • Chung, Dong-Jun (Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison) ;
  • Choi, Man-Kyu (Department of Healthcare Management, Korea University)
  • 정민수 (서울대학교 보건대학원 보건사회학교실) ;
  • 정동준 (위스컨신대학교 대학원 통계학과) ;
  • 최만규 (고려대학교 보건행정학과)
  • Published : 2008.11.30
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Abstract

Objectives : There are very few researches on North Korea's academic activities. Furthermore, it is doubtful that the available data are reliable. This study investigated research activities and knowledge structure in the field of Preventive Medicine in North Korea with a network analysis using co-authors and keywords. Methods : The data was composed of the North Korean Journal of preventive medicine ranged from Vol. 1 of 1997 to Vol. 4 of 2006. It was the matrix of 1,172 articles by 1,567 co-authors. We applied R procedure for keywords abstraction, and then sought for the outcome of network forms by spring-KK and shrinking network. Results : To comprehend the whole networks explicitly demonstrated that the academic activities in North Korea s preventive medicine were predisposed to centralization as similar as South Korea's, but on the other aspect they were prone to one-off intermittent segmentation. The principal co-author networks were formulated around some outstanding medical universities seemingly in addition to possible intervention by major researchers. The knowledge structure of network was based on experimentation judging from keywords such as drug, immunity, virus detection, infection, bacteria, anti-inflammation, etc. Conclusions : Though North Korea is a socialist regime, there were network of academic activities, which were deemed the existence of inducive mechanism affordable for free research. Article keywords has laid greater emphasis on experiment-based bacterial defection, sustainable immune system and prevention of infection. The kind of trend was a consistent characteristic in preventive medicine of North Korea haying close correlation with Koryo medical science.

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