Scientific collaboration in Peruvian biomedical journals

• Autores: Huamaní, Charles, Pacheco-Romero, José
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2011
• Institución: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
• Repositorio: Revistas - Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.csi.unmsm:article/1080
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe/index.php/anales/article/view/1080
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Bibliometría; indicador de colaboración; publicaciones seriadas; gestión de ciencia; tecnología e innovación en salud; Perú; Bibliometrics; collaboration indicator; serial publications; science administration; health technology and innovation; Peru

Background: Products of research activities in medicine are mainly expressed in scientific journals; these products are subject to quantification and may be registered in specialized databases. Objectives: To determine socialization and interaction of Peruvian researchers and research institutions in order to identify possible critical knots where media intervention might help improving and increasing scientific production in medicine. Design: Bibliometrical study. Institution: Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru. Bibliographic material: Scientific papers published during 2005-2008 in SciELO Peru database. Interventions: Only scientific papers were selected, identifying authorship and institutional affiliation. Authorship and institutional collaboration were analyzed. Main outcome measures: Authors’ signatures index, frequencies, percentages and collaboration nets. Results: Four hundred and ninety three papers were analyzed comprising 2 131 signatures of 1 540 authors and 271 institutions; 56,2% were elaborated jointly by two institutions; 70,5% of researchers had only one paper registered. Most productive institutions were Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos and Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, with 138 and 125 articles respectively. Conclusions: National medical research is accomplished by few persevering researchers and few research nuclei mainly from universities that appear centralized and with moderate aperture to other developing knots.