Una mirada epistemométrica de la Revista Médica de Chile y su aporte al conocimiento en Medicina
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2008
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Sociedad Médica de Santiago
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Licencia CC
Licencia CC
Resumen
Background: During the last decade Revista Médica de Chile increased its visibility,
measured on citations and impact factor. Aim: To perform a scientometric analysis to assess the
performance of Revista Médica de Chile. Material and methods: Thomson's-ISI Web of Science and Journal
Citation Reports QCR) were consulted for performance indicators of Revista Médica de Chile and Latin
Amerícan journals whose subject is General and Internal Medicine. We also report the h-index of the
journal, which infers quality ¡inked to the quantity of the output. Results: According to the h-index,
Revista Médica de Chile ranks 4 among the 36 journals indexed and published by Argentina, Brazil,
Chile and México. The top ten articles published by Revista Médica de Chile and the institutions with
the higher contríbution to the journal, were identified using citations. In the Latin Amerícan región,
Brazil relevantly increased its scientific output. However, Argentina, Chile and México maintain a
plateau during the last decade. Conclusions: Revista Médica de Chile increased notoriously its
performance. Its contríbution to the Chilean scientific community dedicated to Medicine appears to be of
central value.
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Indexación: Scielo
Palabras clave
Abstracting and indexing as topic, Journalism, Medical, Periodicals as topic
Citación
Revista médica de Chile, Vol. 136, N° 8, pp. 1065-1072 2008.