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Scholarly Production and Public Health Determinants in Context of Funding: The Case of IoMT Research:

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Funding for Internet of Medical Things research is positively associated with better health determinants across countries.

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The paper examines the scale of research funding for the Internet of Medical Things and its links to both scholarly output patterns and country-level health indicators. Quantitative and qualitative analysis shows rising IoMT publication volume overall, with funded work emphasizing newer areas such as artificial intelligence applications while sharing core themes with non-funded work. The central result is a positive association between the number of funded papers and health determinants, which the authors interpret as evidence that such funding may support improved healthcare delivery.

Core claim

The study reveals a positive trend in IoMT research literature production. Thematic analysis shows that both funded and non-funded research are associated with similar themes; however, funded research is more focused on recent research trends like artificial intelligence applications in healthcare. The study revealed the positive association between the number of funded papers and health determinants, suggesting that IoMT research funding might contribute to improved healthcare delivery.

What carries the argument

Correlation between the count of funded IoMT papers and national health determinants, supported by thematic comparison of funded versus non-funded literature.

If this is right

  • Higher numbers of funded IoMT papers correspond with stronger health determinants in the countries producing them.
  • Funded IoMT research incorporates more recent topics such as artificial intelligence applications in healthcare.
  • Research themes remain broadly consistent between funded and non-funded IoMT papers.
  • Increased IoMT research funding may contribute to advancements in healthcare delivery.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Policy decisions on medical technology funding could draw on this association to allocate resources toward IoMT projects.
  • Similar funding-output-determinant patterns might appear in studies of other digital health technologies.
  • Future work that isolates the funding effect from economic confounders would clarify whether the link is causal.

Load-bearing premise

The positive association between funded IoMT papers and health determinants reflects a contribution from the research funding rather than confounding variables such as national wealth or overall research infrastructure.

What would settle it

A re-analysis that controls for GDP per capita or total national research spending and finds the association between funded IoMT papers and health determinants disappears.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.22411 by Peter Kokol.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: shows a growth in the number of papers in the domain of IoMT, for both NFPs and FPs, from 2016 to 2024. However, while the growth in NFPs is resembling the exponential curve, the growth in FPs is approximately linear. Initially the ratio of funding papers increased from 12% to 27% in 2019, then the ratio steadily decreased to less than 11%. In 2024 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_1.png] view at source ↗
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The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) represents a transformative technology that connects medical devices, sensors, and healthcare systems to enable real-time monitoring, data sharing, and advanced decision-making in healthcare. While the technical and clinical potential of IoMT has been researched extensively, the scale and scope of research funding and their influence on research literature production patterns and country health determinants remain unknown. The study presented in this paper covers this gap by employing triangulation of quantitative and qualitative approaches. The results reveal a positive trend IoMT in research literature produc-tion. Thematic analysis shows that both funded and non-funded are associated with similar themes; however, founded research is more focused on recent research trends like artificial in-telligence applications in healthcare. Finally, our study revealed the positive association be-tween the number of funded papers and health determinants, suggesting that IoMT research funding might contribute to improved healthcare delivery.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript examines scholarly production in Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) research in relation to funding and country-level public health determinants. It employs triangulation of quantitative and qualitative methods, reports a positive trend in IoMT literature production, finds thematic overlap between funded and non-funded work (with funded work emphasizing AI applications), and identifies a positive association between the number of funded papers and health determinants, from which it infers that IoMT research funding might contribute to improved healthcare delivery.

Significance. A rigorously controlled demonstration of an association between targeted research funding and health outcomes could inform science policy in emerging medical technologies. The current manuscript, however, presents the association without sufficient methodological detail to evaluate its robustness, limiting its potential contribution.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the claim of a 'positive association between the number of funded papers and health determinants' is presented without any description of the statistical model, control variables, data sources, sample size, or handling of confounders such as national wealth or research infrastructure; this omission is load-bearing for the central inference that funding 'might contribute to improved healthcare delivery.'
  2. [Abstract] Abstract: the triangulation of quantitative and qualitative methods is described at a high level but does not indicate any multivariate regression, fixed effects, or instrumental-variable approach that would distinguish the reported association from reverse causation or omitted-variable bias.
minor comments (3)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: hyphenation error 'produc-tion' should read 'production'.
  2. [Abstract] Abstract: 'founded research' should read 'funded research'.
  3. [Abstract] Abstract: 'in-telligence' should read 'intelligence'.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the comments on methodological transparency. We agree the abstract is too condensed to support evaluation of the reported association and will revise it (and the methods section) to add necessary detail while preserving the exploratory and cautious framing of the study. We address each point below.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the claim of a 'positive association between the number of funded papers and health determinants' is presented without any description of the statistical model, control variables, data sources, sample size, or handling of confounders such as national wealth or research infrastructure; this omission is load-bearing for the central inference that funding 'might contribute to improved healthcare delivery.'

    Authors: We acknowledge the abstract's brevity omits these elements. The manuscript's quantitative component aggregates country-level counts of funded IoMT papers (drawn from publication databases) and compares them with publicly available health determinant indicators; the association is descriptive rather than the output of a multivariate model with explicit controls. In revision we will expand the abstract to state the data sources, sample (papers and countries), and the correlational nature of the comparison, while retaining the cautious phrasing 'might contribute' and adding an explicit note on the absence of controls for national wealth or infrastructure as a limitation. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the triangulation of quantitative and qualitative methods is described at a high level but does not indicate any multivariate regression, fixed effects, or instrumental-variable approach that would distinguish the reported association from reverse causation or omitted-variable bias.

    Authors: The triangulation consists of (i) quantitative bibliometric counts of publication trends and funding status and (ii) qualitative thematic coding of paper content. The country-level association is obtained by direct comparison of these counts with health indicators and is not derived from regression, fixed effects, or instruments. Because the design is observational and exploratory, it cannot separate the reported pattern from reverse causation or omitted variables; the manuscript therefore uses suggestive language only. We will revise the abstract and methods to name the exact quantitative operations performed and to state the observational limitation explicitly. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: empirical association reported from data analysis with no derivations or self-referential definitions.

full rationale

The paper reports an empirical finding of positive association between funded IoMT papers and health determinants via triangulation of quantitative and qualitative methods. No equations, mathematical derivations, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, or self-citation chains are present in the provided abstract or described structure. The central claim is a data-driven observation, not a result that reduces to its inputs by construction. The study is self-contained as an observational analysis without load-bearing self-referential steps.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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The abstract does not specify any free parameters, mathematical axioms, or new postulated entities. The study relies on standard empirical methods whose assumptions are not detailed here.

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