Características de la producción científica en enfermería en la década 1985-1994

Scientific production of the journal Investigación y Educación en Enfermería during its 30 editing years

“…Revising the academic level of the authors in the articles, seven of every 10 of the first authors of articles in the IEE journal have had graduate formation (39% masters and 21% doctorate), a similar finding to that reported by García et al, 8 who also stated publications by nurses with master's degree is higher because those with PhD degrees are still a minority. Díaz et al, 13 state that this difference may be because many of the authors are professors who are required higher academic formation to work in universities and, as already expressed, they have the greatest commitment to divulge research results.…”

“…Although many healthcare institutions have teaching-care provider agreements with universities, these rarely have institutional policies for research, 16 which explains why the increase of nursing scientific production is due mainly to formation institutions. 25 Other authors 8,13 remark on the need to involve care providing nurses in research processes, given that they are the ones who are frequently in contact with the users, thereby, they should not waste their valuable contributions and experience on the practice of care.…”

“…Nursing students were the first authors in almost 4% of the articles published in the IEE journal, a participation that, according to García et al, 8 is quite limited and could be a consequence of low commitment in the promotion of new generations of researchers.…”

“…5 The increased number of nursing journals has been so high 6 that in the most specialized database in the discipline, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health (CINAHL), we could consult 5089 journals in April 2013. 7 However, Nursing, as the young science it is, requires evaluating what is being published 8 to identify what are the study phenomena of interest for nursing professionals, in what populations are the greatest research efforts being concentrated, and from what scientific paradigms are these addressed. 2 Because of this, it is necessary to study the written production in journals to characterize and identify the tendencies in publications in Nursing, besides exploring its relationship with the disciplinary development.…”