Visibility and impact of the Revista Peruana de Ginecología y Obstetricia

• Autores: Pacheco Romero, José, Ramos Castillo, José
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2016
• Institución: Sociedad Peruana de Obstetricia y Ginecología
• Repositorio: Revista SPOG - Revista Peruana de Ginecología y Obstetricia
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.spog:article/1872
• Enlace del recurso: http://www.spog.org.pe/web/revista/index.php/RPGO/article/view/1872
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto

Medical journals require visibility and impact as important sources of information. In this article, Revista Peruana de Ginecología y Obstetricia (RPGO) visibility and impact are determined, following digitalization of all articles since 1955 for virtual positioning, with free access to these articles, visits and archive discharges, obtaining both impact and citations for the journal, authors and articles. According to SciELO statistics, RPGO impact factor is the third among the eight Peruvian medical journals indexed, following Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Pública (indexed in MEDLINE) and Revista Médica Herediana, and fourth among the 22 Peruvian journals of the SciELO collection, following RPMESP, Revista de Psicología de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and RMH. RPGO is currently a journal with leadership position in obstetrics and gynecology for impact and change, with an Editor-in-charge and an Editorial Staff conducting the journal for the past 22 years.