The phrase "are often fragmented" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is typically incomplete or broken into parts, often referring to ideas, narratives, or data.
Example: "The reports we receive from different departments are often fragmented, making it difficult to get a clear picture of the overall situation."
Alternatives: "are frequently disjointed" or "are commonly incomplete".
It matters little that these words are often fragmented.
Yet its website is still freely accessible from China: evidence of how Chinese organs of state control are often fragmented, inefficient and ill co-ordinated.
Urban green spaces provide essential ecosystem services and improve resident quality of life, but open space networks are often fragmented by urban development, and it is difficult to reclaim natural lands after they have been built up.
Adoption of new technologies, standardised case definitions and clinical guidelines for accurate diagnosis, and access to timely and reliable data, remains a challenge for public health surveillance systems however and existing public health surveillance systems are often fragmented, disease specific, inconsistent and of poor quality.
The insertion sequences in NoAz, are found interrupting ORFs of a number of genes, and genes in proximity to insertion element remains are often fragmented (Figure 3, 5A, B).
However, assemblies created using only Illumina "short reads" are often fragmented.
In a US soccer landscape where youth development is often fragmented between high school, local travel teams, pay-to-play programs, and various semi-pro academies, FC Dallas is unique in its top-down adherence to a single philosophy.
Kings most often appointed bishops from among their followers without regard for religious qualifications; the metropolitan see was often fragmented in the course of territorial partitions and tended to lose its importance, and the church in Francia increasingly withdrew from papal control despite papal attempts to reestablish ties.
Food control administration is often fragmented, resulting in gaps or duplication of controls and the technical capacities to assure adherence to the requirements are limited.
Finally, care for frail older adults living at home is often fragmented, resulting in a lack of coordination and information exchange between health care professionals [ 5].
The data available on antibiotic use in the community in India, is often fragmented, usually being collected over a few months either for a drug use indicator study or for examining treatment of a particular disease [ 18, 19].
