Latin American scientific output in Public Health: combined analysis using bibliometric, socioeconomic and health indicators

Chinchilla‐Rodríguez, Zaida; Zacca-González, Grisel; Vargas-Quesada, Benjamín; Anegón, Félix de Moya

doi:10.1007/s11192-014-1349-9

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“…These first-world countries have had a significant growing share in the virology field in the last decade [4,24], which can be very useful for developing countries such as Colombia in terms in terms of reduction of transactional cost of technology transfer, communication, and quality of research. Important Latin American countries such as Brazil and Mexico are included in the top 10 collaborators, and those countries have been shown to be the most important producers of regional literature in public health registered in Scopus and to act as proxies in the network of intra-regional collaboration in different areas [25,12,11].…”

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Virology research in a Latin American developing country: a bibliometric analysis of virology in Colombia (2000–2013)

Ruíz-Saenz

Martínez-Gutiérrez

2015

J Infect Dev Ctries

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Introduction: Bibliometric analysis demonstrates that the virology research in Latin America has increased. For this reason, the objective of this study was to evaluate Colombian publications on viruses and viral diseases in indexed journals during the period from 2000 to 2013. Methodology: The bibliographic data were collected from MedLine, SciELO, LILACS and Scopus databases. The database was constructed in Excel descriptive statistics. The SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) was evaluated using the SCImago Journal & Country Rank in 2013 and was used as an indicator of the quality of the journals used by the Colombian researchers. Results: The total number of papers published was 711, of which 40.4% were published in local journals, and 59.6% were published in foreign journals. Most (89.2%) were original papers. Moreover, 34.2% of the papers were published in collaboration with international researchers, with the United States being the most represented. Of the journals used, 85.6% had an SJR, and 14.4% did not. The median SJR of the papers was 0.789, and the median of the papers with international collaborators was higher compared to the SJR of the papers without international collaboration. Papers were most frequently published in journals whose categories were medicine (miscellaneous), virology, and infectious diseases. The viruses that appeared in the papers more frequently were HIV, dengue, and papillomavirus. Conclusions: This study provides data for use in research, health planning, and policy analysis as it relates to virology in Colombia and other developing Latin American countries.

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Virology research in a Latin American developing country: a bibliometric analysis of virology in Colombia (2000–2013)

Ruíz-Saenz

Martínez-Gutiérrez

2015

J Infect Dev Ctries

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“…Estudios anteriores han demostrado que la utilización de Scopus como fuente para análisis cienciométricos, evidencia la orientación biomédica de la investigación cubana (Arencibia Jorge & Moya Anegón, 2010). Cuba es un país relativamente pequeño, con alrededor de 11 millones de habitantes, que tiene una alta proporción de publicaciones por millón de habitantes (Chinchilla-Rodríguez et al, 2014b). Es por ello que se considera relevante que ocupe el lugar 51 en el área temática Medicina y el 39 en la categoría Salud Pública en el ranking internacional de países por volumen de producción.…”

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“…Se ha identificado a Cuba en el cuarto lugar en volumen de producción científica en Latinoamérica, también como el país con menores tasas de colaboración, entre los países que menos publican en inglés y de los que más artículos tienen en el cuarto cuartil. Los autores cubanos aparecen como los principales de sus publicaciones, por tanto, el liderazgo es alto pero el impacto de la producción científica es bajo, demostrado por el impacto normalizado, bajo el porcentaje de documentos entre el 10% más citado dentro de la categoría (indicador de excelencia) y por bajos valores del indicador de excelencia con liderazgo (Zacca-González et al, 2014;Chinchilla-Rodríguez et al, 2014b).…”

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Producción científica cubana en Medicina y Salud Pública: Scopus 2003-2011

Zacca-González¹,

Vargas-Quesada

Chinchilla‐Rodríguez

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El objetivo de este trabajo fue analizar la evolución del volumen y la visibilidad de la producción científica cubana en Salud Pública y en Medicina para determinar si siguen los mismos patrones de comunicación, y recomendar buenas prácticas de publicación. Se aplicaron indicadores bibliométricos de volumen, visibilidad y colaboración extraídos del portal SCImago Institutions Rankings a partir de datos de Scopus, para el área temática Medicine y la categoría Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, período 2003-2011. Cuba tiene una posición relativamente alta en los rankings de volumen de producción científica tanto en Medicina como en Salud Pública en los contextos internacionales y regionales, mientras que en impacto está entre los últimos países. La tendencia de la producción es al crecimiento, aunque en Salud Pública es más acelerado. El liderazgo es alto, pero la colaboración internacional está por debajo de lo esperado. La publicación en revistas de alto impacto (primer cuartil) y los artículos en el 10% más citado (excelencia) son escasos. Se concluye que el volumen y el impacto de la publicación no están acorde al potencial científico de salud cubana. Se recomienda incrementar la colaboración científica, la publicación de artículos en revistas de alto impacto, la preparación de los recursos humanos y seguir las recomendaciones internacionales sobre las buenas prácticas de edición y publicación científica.

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“…There are also bibliometric analysis published in health management that investigate the attention and progress of strategic management in the literature [17], in health economics, studies have reported the growth of health economics literature and the change in topics and geographical focus of health economics [18–20]. Bibliometric studies in health service research have looked for trends, gaps and characteristics when comparing among different regions [21, 22], in the same line other studies have assessed the scientific production in health policy [23, 24], in primary health [25, 26], in epidemiology [27, 28], in environmental health [29–31], in public health and preventive medicine [32, 33], in preventive medicine, occupational and environmental medicine, epidemiology, and public health [34], and also public in health research in specific countries or regions [35–42]. This literature has become relevant today perhaps due to the diverse disciplines that are engaged in health research and its importance in order to monitor and disseminate the scientific achievements from the research work.…”

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Influential journals in health research: a bibliometric study

Merigó

Núñez

2016

Global Health

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BackgroundThere is a wide range of intellectual work written about health research, which has been shaped by the evolution of diseases. This study aims to identify the leading journals over the last 25 years (1990–2014) according to a wide range of bibliometric indicators.MethodsThe study develops a bibliometric overview of all the journals that are currently indexed in Web of Science (WoS) database in any of the four categories connected to health research. The work classifies health research in nine subfields: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Health Management and Economics, Health Promotion and Health Behavior, Epidemiology, Health Policy and Services, Medicine, Health Informatics, Engineering and Technology, and Primary Care.ResultsThe results indicate a wide dispersion between categories being the American Journal of Epidemiology, Environmental Health Perspectives, American Journal of Public Health, and Social Science & Medicine, the journals that have received the highest number of citations over the last 25 years. According to other indicators such as the h-index and the citations per paper, some other journals such as the Annual Review of Public Health and Medical Care, obtain better results which show the wide diversity and profiles of outlets available in the scientific community. The results are grouped and studied according to the nine subfields in order to identify the leading journals in each specific sub discipline of health.ConclusionsThe work identifies the leading journals in health research through a bibliometric approach. The analysis shows a deep overview of the results of health journals. It is worth noting that many journals have entered the WoS database during the last years, in many cases to fill some specific niche that has emerged in the literature, although the most popular ones have been in the database for a long time.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12992-016-0186-4) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Latin American scientific output in Public Health: combined analysis using bibliometric, socioeconomic and health indicators

Cited by 60 publications

References 23 publications

Virology research in a Latin American developing country: a bibliometric analysis of virology in Colombia (2000–2013)

Virology research in a Latin American developing country: a bibliometric analysis of virology in Colombia (2000–2013)

Producción científica cubana en Medicina y Salud Pública: Scopus 2003-2011

Influential journals in health research: a bibliometric study

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