CREATION OF A UNIFIED GLOBAL SYSTEM OF INFORMATION SUPPORT FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.32782/health-2025.3.8Keywords:
medical research, medical information, scientific journals, search databasesAbstract
Planning and conducting medical research requires information about the results obtained in the framework of other research projects. Searching for information on a specific planned topic of medical research takes a significant amount of time and is the reason for slowing down access to new, more effective drugs and treatment methods. It was defined that the existing system of information provision of medical research with the help of printed and electronic medical scientific journals in the 21st century is losing its efficiency and effectiveness. The main reasons for the decrease in efficiency and effectiveness of the modern system of distribution of medical scientific information include: a large number of scientific journals; low circulations of individual journals; long time for publication of research results; high cost of publishing a scientific article; high cost of journals subscriptions; a significant number of pseudo-scientific journals that publish articles without peer review and editing in order to charge fees for so-called article processing. As a result of the conducted research, the concept of a unified global system of information support for medical research at the WHO level was developed. The study was based on 46 articles retrieved from electronic search databases such as Google Scholar and PubMed and the references contained in these articles. Applied methods of information search, systematization, content analysis, comparison and generalization. On the basis of the generalization of scientific publications, the essence of types of medical research, sources of information about their results, in particular scientific journals and search databases, have been clarified. Taking into account the fact that the policy and practice of health support throughout the world should be based on the best scientific knowledge, confirmed by the results of medical research, it is proposed to create under the auspices of the WHO a unified worldwide system of information support of medical research for use on a free basis.
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