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Chagas, Risk and Health Seeking among Bolivian Women in Catalonia

Publicated to:Medical Anthropology. 40 (6): 1-16 - 2021-01-01 40(6), DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2020.1718125

Authors: Ventura-Garcia, Laia; Muela-Ribera, Joan; Martinez-Hernaez, Angel

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Univ Rovira & Virgili, Med Anthropol Res Ctr, Tarragona, Spain - Author
Universitat Rovira i Virgili - Author

Abstract

© 2020, © 2020 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. In this article, we explore relationships between risk and emotions among Bolivian women living with Chagas disease, and the implications of this for their diagnosis and treatment in Catalonia, Spain. Here, risk is a social phenomenon, while emotions are conceived as embedded in the sociocultural and relational world. Emotions play key risk-related roles as both a cause and consequence of Chagas disease, are the basis of health practices, and allow us to link risk to wider social inequalities. The way we conceive emotions is crucial both theorically and practically.

Keywords

boliviacataluñachagaschagas diseaseemocionesemotionshealth seeking processesmigrant womenmujeres migrantes bolivianasprocesos asistencialesriesgoAccessAnthropologyAnthropology, medicalBoliviaCareCataluñaChagasChagas diseaseCountriesDiseaseEmigrants and immigrantsEmocionesEmotionsFemaleHealth seeking processesHumansMigrant womenMujeres migrantes bolivianasPatient acceptance of health careProcesos asistencialesRiesgoRiskRisk factors

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Medical Anthropology due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2021, it was in position 9/93, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Anthropology. Notably, the journal is positioned above the 90th percentile.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from World Citations provided by WoS (ESI, Clarivate), it yields a value for the citation normalization relative to the expected citation rate of: 2.07. This indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: ESI Nov 14, 2024)

This information is reinforced by other indicators of the same type, which, although dynamic over time and dependent on the set of average global citations at the time of their calculation, consistently position the work at some point among the top 50% most cited in its field:

  • Weighted Average of Normalized Impact by the Scopus agency: 1.52 (source consulted: FECYT Feb 2024)
  • Field Citation Ratio (FCR) from Dimensions: 4.62 (source consulted: Dimensions Jun 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-06-21, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 8
  • Scopus: 7
  • Europe PMC: 2
  • Google Scholar: 19
  • OpenCitations: 5

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-06-21:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 18.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 18 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 3.35.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 4 (Altmetric).

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Ventura Garcia, Laia) and Last Author (Martinez Hernaez, Angel).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been Ventura Garcia, Laia.