Carolina Navarro Molina

Factor de impacto de las revistas médicas españolas

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: The 2001 edition of the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) includes only 13 Spanish medical journals. The impact factor (IF) of the rest of Spanish medical journals is unknown. The aim of this study is to determine the IF of the main Spanish medical journals, taking also into account the references from journals not covered by the SCI. MATERIAL AND METHOD: A set of 87 Spanish medical journals was selected from the national database IME and other international databases. All citable articles published in these journals in 2001 were analyzed, extracting their bibliographic references to articles published in 1999, 2000 and 2001. The indicators obtained for each journal were the number of cites, the IF and the immediacy index. RESULTS: Among the 87 source journals, 74 were not included in the JCR. From them, 5,388 bibliographic references were examined, identifying the journals cited. Final indicators were obtained adding these results to the ones obtained by using the Science Citation Index. The most cited journal was Medicina Clinica (768 cites), and the highest IF were attained by Histology and Histopathology (IF = 1.866), International Journal of Developmental Biology (IF = 1.654) and Medicina Clinica (IF = 1.125). CONCLUSIONS: This work has permitted to obtain the IF of 87 Spanish medical journals. Already detected in previous works, the leadership of the journal Medicina Clinica in Spanish medicine is confirmed. Spanish medical journals published in English have received a small number of cites from the ones published in Spanish. A low impact factor is not necessarily related to lack of quality, merit or relevance.Fundamento y objetivo En 2001 solo 13 revistas medicas espanolas estaban incluidas en elJournal Citation Reports, por lo que se desconoce el factor de impacto (FI) del resto de revistasespanolas. El objetivo es determinar el FI de las principales revistas medicas espanolas, tenien-do en cuenta las citas procedentes de las revistas no incluidas en la cobertura del Science Ci-tation Index Pacientes y metodo Se analizaron las referencias bibliograficas de 1999, 2000 y 2001 de losarticulos citables publicados en 2001 en una seleccion de 87 revistas medicas espanolas in-cluidas en la base de datos nacional Indice Medico Espanol y en alguna otra base de datos in-ternacional. Se calcularon el numero de citas, el FI y el indice de inmediatez de cada revista Resultados Se analizaron 5.388 referencias bibliograficas procedentes de 74 revistas fuente ocitadoras no incluidas en el Journal Citation Reports y se identificaron las revistas citadas. Aestas citas se anadieron las que cada revista habia recibido en Science Citation Index. La revis-ta mas citada fue MEDICINACLINICA, con 768 citas, y las de mayor FI fueron Histology and His-topathology(FI = 1,866), International Journal of Developmental Biology(FI = 1,654) y MEDICI-NACLINICA(FI = 1,125) Conclusiones Este trabajo ha permitido obtener el FI de 87 revistas medicas espanolas y con-firma los resultados obtenidos en trabajos anteriores que mostraron el liderazgo de MEDICINACLINICAen la medicina espanola. Las revistas publicadas en ingles han recibido pocas citas delresto de las espanolas. La falta de impacto en algunas revistas no estanecesariamente relacio-nada con su falta de calidad, merito o relevanciaBACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE The 2001 edition of the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) includes only 13 Spanish medical journals. The impact factor (IF) of the rest of Spanish medical journals is unknown. The aim of this study is to determine the IF of the main Spanish medical journals, taking also into account the references from journals not covered by the SCI. MATERIAL AND METHOD A set of 87 Spanish medical journals was selected from the national database IME and other international databases. All citable articles published in these journals in 2001 were analyzed, extracting their bibliographic references to articles published in 1999, 2000 and 2001. The indicators obtained for each journal were the number of cites, the IF and the immediacy index. RESULTS Among the 87 source journals, 74 were not included in the JCR. From them, 5,388 bibliographic references were examined, identifying the journals cited. Final indicators were obtained adding these results to the ones obtained by using the Science Citation Index. The most cited journal was Medicina Clinica (768 cites), and the highest IF were attained by Histology and Histopathology (IF = 1.866), International Journal of Developmental Biology (IF = 1.654) and Medicina Clinica (IF = 1.125). CONCLUSIONS This work has permitted to obtain the IF of 87 Spanish medical journals. Already detected in previous works, the leadership of the journal Medicina Clinica in Spanish medicine is confirmed. Spanish medical journals published in English have received a small number of cites from the ones published in Spanish. A low impact factor is not necessarily related to lack of quality, merit or relevance.

Evolucion y repercusion cientifica de las becas de investigacion de la Sociedad Espanola de Cardiologia y la Fundacion Espanola del Corazon (2000-2006)

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES The Sociedad Española de Cardiología (Spanish Society of Cardiology) every year awards grants to finance research in the field of cardiovascular diseases. The aim of this study is to identify the impact of these investments during the period 2000-2006 from the subsequently published articles in scientific journals. METHODS Using the identifying data of each project as search terms, all articles that resulted from these grants were located in the Spanish Índice Médico Español and Índice Bibliográfico Español en Ciencias de la Salud databases, and in Science Citation Index-Expanded and Scopus. Descriptive statistical analysis of these articles included type of grant, number and amount awarded per year, and the recipients sex and institutional affiliation. RESULTS The Sociedad Española de Cardiología awarded €3,270,877 to 207 recipients, an average annual total of €467,268. We identified 231 publications that resulted from 123 (59.42%) of these grants. The average number of articles per grant awarded was 1.12, and 1.9 when taking into account only the awards that led to publication. CONCLUSIONS During the period 2000 to 2006, the Sociedad Española de Cardiología/ Fundación Española del Corazón (Spanish Heart Foundation) provided about €500,000 per year to fund research grants, thereby contributing to the fight against cardiovascular diseases. Almost 60% of grants have led to publications, 73% of which were published in international journals, and 91.34% in national or international journals with an impact factor in the Journal Citation Reports.