El webinar titulado “Scopus: análisis y visualización de publicaciones con alto factor de impacto”, organizado por la Dirección de Gestión del Conocimiento, contó con la participación de docentes y estudiantes de los diferentes programas académicos de UPC. La expositora Aline Cristina Bastos da Silva, analista de formación de ELSEVIER, presentó las principales características y funcionalidades del recurso para buscar, analizar y visualizar publicaciones en las diferentes áreas del conocimiento. Scopus se encuentra disponible en nuestro Portal de Recursos de investigación (https://biblioteca.upc.edu.pe/az.php), es una base de datos de referencias bibliográficas, proporciona citas, perfiles detallados de investigadores e ideas que impulsan mejores decisiones, acciones y resultados.

Purpose: COVID-19 has affected cancer care worldwide. Clinical trials are an important alternative for the treatment of oncologic patients, especially in Latin America, where trials can be the only opportunity for some of them to access novel and, sometimes, standard treatments.Methods: This was a cross-sectional study, in which a 22-question survey regarding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on oncology clinical trials was sent to 350 representatives of research programs in selected Latin American institutions, members of the Latin American Cooperative Oncology Group.Results: There were 90 research centers participating in the survey, with 70 of them from Brazil. The majority were partly private or fully private (n = 77; 85.6%) and had confirmed COVID-19 cases at the institution (n = 57; 63.3%). Accruals were suspended at least for some studies in 80% (n = 72) of the responses, mostly...