Proliferation of the WReN spider, an instrument to measure health professionals’ experience of research : a bibliographic study

• Main Authors: Puerta, Lidia Luna, Apfelbacher, Christian, Smith, Helen
• Other Authors: Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine)
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Research Skills; Science::Medicine; Bibliometrics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/84178; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/49786
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Background: In 1997 the “Wessex Research Network (WReN) Spider” was developed and validated to assess the research experience of general practice based researchers. This bibliometric study traces the use and development of this instrument over 15 years. Methods: We performed a bibliographic search t...