BackgroundPublications are often used as a measure of success of research work. Leishmaniasis is considered endemic in 98 countries, most of which are developing. This article describes a bibliometric review of the literature on leishmaniasis research indexed in PubMed during a 66-year period.MethodsMedline was used via the PubMed online service of the US National Library of Medicine. The search strategy was Leishmania [MeSH] or leishmaniasis [MeSH] from 1 January 1945 until 31 December 2010. Neither language nor document type restrictions were employed.ResultsA total of 20,780 references were retrieved. The number of publications increased steadily over time, with 3,380 publications from 1945-1980 to 8,267 from 2001-2010. Leishmaniasis documents were published in 1,846 scientific journals, and Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (4.9%) was the top one. The USA was the predominant country by considering the first author’s institutional address (16.8%), followed by Brazil (14.9%), and then India (9.0%), however Brazil leads the scientific output in 2001-2010 period (18.5%), followed by the USA (13.5%) and India (10%). The production ranking changed when the number of publications was normalised by population (Israel and Switzerland), by gross domestic product (Nepal and Tunisia), and by gross national income per capita (India and Ethiopia). For geographical area, Europe led (31.7%), followed by Latin America (24.5%).ConclusionsWe have found an increase in the number of publications in the field of leishmaniasis. The USA and Brazil led scientific production on leishmaniasis research.

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Background: Subsequent publication rate of abstracts presented at meetings is seen as an indicator of the interest and quality of the meeting. We have analyzed characteristics and rate publication in peer-reviewed journals derived from oral communications and posters presented at the 1999 College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD) meeting.

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Fundamento y objetivo: La preocupación por favorecer la igualdad de género constituye uno de los ámbitos prioritarios objeto de atención por parte de los gobiernos y los organismos gestores de las políticas científicas, destacándose la importancia de incluir la variable del sexo en los análisis evaluativos de la actividad científica y tecnológica. Se realiza un estudio comparativo desagregado por sexos de la producción científica de los investigadores españoles de elevada productividad en el área de las drogodependencias. Material y método: Se ha identificado el sexo de los 338 autores que han publicado más de cuatro artículos distintos durante el período 1999-2004 indexados en las bases de datos IME/Índice Médico Español y SCI/Science Citation Index, analizando comparativamente su productividad y patrones de colaboración considerando la variable sexo. Resultados: Entre los grandes productores (> 9 trabajos) del ámbito de las drogodependencias predominan los hombres (70%) frente a las mujeres (30%). Entre los productores moderados (5-9 trabajos), el 57% de los autores identificados fueron hombres frente a un 43% de mujeres. Se han observado diferencias estadísticamente significativas entre hombres y mujeres en los grandes productores en cuanto al número de trabajos publicados y personas con las que han colaborado. Conclusiones: En el área de las drogodependencias no existe una igualdad de género, especialmente cuando se considera la élite de la investigación. Resulta fundamental profundizar en estudios que evalúen de forma desagregada por sexos la productividad científica para acometer las medidas correctoras necesarias que permitan alcanzar la igualdad de género.

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A bibliometric analysis of Spanish cardiovascular research is presented. The study focuses on the productivity, visibility and citation impact in an international, notably European context. Special attention is given to international collaboration. The underlying bibliographic data are collected from Thomson Reuters's Web of Science on the basis of a 'hybrid' search strategy combining core journals, lexical terms and citation links especially developed for the field of cardiology.