Title
Research trends in carrion’s disease in the last 60 years. A bibliometric assessment of Latin American scientific production
Date Issued
01 January 2018
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
EDIMES Edizioni Medico Scientifiche
Abstract
Carrion’s disease is a major re-emerging and occupational health disease. This bibliometric study aimed to evaluate scientific production on this disease both globally and in Latin America. SCI-E, MEDLINE/Go-PubMed, SCOPUS, ScIELO, and LILACS databases were searched for Carrion’s disease-related articles. They were classified according to publication year, type, city and institution of origin, international cooperation, scientific journal, impact factor, publication language, author(s), and H-index. There were 170 articles in SCI-E. The USA was the largest contributor (42.9%), followed by Peru (24.1%) and Spain (12.4%). Latin American publications were cited 811 times (regional H-in-dex=18). There were 335 articles in SCOPUS: 25.9%, 11.6%, and 8.3% were published by the USA, Peru, and Spain, respectively. Latin American publications were cited 613 times (H-index=12): Peru, Colombia, and Brazil received the most citations (n=395, H-index=10; n=61, H-index=1; and n=54, H-index=4, respectively). The most scientifically productive American institution was the University of Montana (2.9% of American pro-duction). In Peru, it was the Institute of Tropical Medicine Alexander von Humboldt of Peruvian University Cayetano Heredia (6.5% of Peruvian scientific produc-tion). There were 3,802 articles in Medline (1.2% were Peruvian), 35 in SciELO (94.3% were from Peru), and 168 in LILACS (11% were published in 2010–2014; only one article was published in 2015). Scientific production worldwide is led by the USA, and, in Latin America, by Peru and Brazil. However, Latin American scientific production in bibliographic databases is much lower than in other regions, despite being an endemic area for Carrion’s disease.
Start page
28
End page
36
Volume
26
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Dermatología, Enfermedades venéreas
Inmunología
Ciencias socio biomédicas (planificación familiar, salud sexual, efectos políticos y sociales de la investigación biomédica)
Ciencias de la educación
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85044973291
PubMed ID
Source
Infezioni in Medicina
ISSN of the container
1124-9390
Sponsor(s)
1Emerge, Emerging Diseases and Climate Change Research Unit, School of Public Health and Administration, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru; 2Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Nacional de Piura, Piura, Peru; 3Public Health and Infection Research Incubator and Group, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Tecnologica de Pereira, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia; 4Medical School, Faculty of Health Sciences, UniFranz, Cochabamba, Bolivia; 5Research Group Medical and Diagnostic Images (GRIMEID), IPS Imágenes Diagnósticas S.A., Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia
Dr. Culquichicon’s work is sponsored by the training grant D43 TW007393 awarded by the Fogarty International Center of the US National Institutes of Health. The rest of the authors declare there is no conflict of interest.
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