Background:

analyzing scientific production offers a diagnosis of scientific results and determines the impact of research.

Objective:

to characterize the scientific production of the faculty of the specialty of Periodontics.

Methods:

a cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out from January to March 2021 at the Faculty of Dentistry of Villa Clara University of Medical Sciences. Theoretical and empirical methods were used. The variables were the following: professors and scientific production, grouped into three categories: publications, innovation and development, and human resources training.

Results:

an average of 13.6 papers and 4.9 articles published per professor in the study period were presented. 12.2% of them were indexed in the Scopus database and 53.1% were original articles. The average number of research projects and professional development courses taught per professor was 1.2.

Conclusions:

the publications represent the majority of the works in the characterization of scientific production. The results impose improvement strategies aimed at extending international cooperation and the scientific visibility of the publication in other databases of recognized international prestige.

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