Indicadores bibliométricos de las publicaciones científicas de la revista peruana de medicina experimental y salud pública, 2010-2017

Translated title of the contribution: Bibliometric indicators of papers published in revista Peruana de medicina experimental y salud pÚblica, 2010-2017

Franco Romaní, César Cabezas

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Abstract

Objectives. To characterize, by means of bibliometric indicators, the scientific publications of the Peruvian Experimental Medicine and Public Health Journal, 2010-2017. Materials and Methods. A bibliometric study in which the publications were retrieved from the data base of Scopus. The bibliometric production indicators were: number of publications per year and type of publication. Brief original and original articles were considered as units of analysis based on number of authors, institutional affiliation, and country of corresponding author, type of research and study design. The impact indicators were: number of citations by publication according to Scopus, metric of impact, such as CiteScore, Scimago Journal & Country Rank (SJR), and SciELO Public Health. Results. A total of 1,045 publications were made by the RPMESP: 40.1% of publications corresponded to original articles and original briefs; 1,837 authors contributed with these publications; 134 institutional affiliations were declared by the corresponding authors; 48,0% were research works on determinants of a health problem; on the other hand, 90.5% corresponded to observational studies. The publications analyzed received 945 citations, of which 78.5% were for publications for the 2010-2013 period. Conclusions. Four of ten publications of the RPMESP correspond to brief original or original articles. According to diverse formulas of calculation, the impact metric of the RPMESP shows an ascending trend; however, their magnitude is lower versus other regional journals.

Translated title of the contributionBibliometric indicators of papers published in revista Peruana de medicina experimental y salud pÚblica, 2010-2017
Original languageSpanish
Pages (from-to)620-629
Number of pages10
JournalRevista Peruana de Medicina de Experimental y Salud Publica
Volume35
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Oct 2018

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Según el ranking de revistas desarrollado por Scimago, el incremento en el número publicaciones originales es una tendencia en gran parte de las revistas científicas latinoamericanas del ámbito de la salud pública, por ejemplo, en la Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública (RPSP) la proporción de publicaciones originales en el periodo 1997-2002 fue de 26,9%, y alcanzó el 70,3% para 2008-2012 (2).

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