The global scientific research response to the public health emergency of Zika virus infection.
Juliane Fonseca de OliveiraJulia Moreira PescariniMoreno Magalhães de Souza RodriguesBethania de Araujo AlmeidaClaudio Maierovitch Pessanha HenriquesFabio Castro GouveiaElaine Teixeira RabelloGustavo Correa MattaMauricio L BarretoRicardo Barros SampaioPublished in: PloS one (2020)
Mapping the response to Zika, a public health emergency, demonstrated a clear pattern of the participation of countries in the scientific advances. The pattern of knowledge production found in this study represented varying country perspectives, research capacity and interests based first on their level of exposure to the epidemic and second on their financial positions regarding science.