Abstract

ALHUAY-QUISPE, Joel; BAUTISTA-YNOFUENTE, Lourdes  and  MADERO-DURAN, Soraya. Latin American Medical Journals Discontinued from Scopus. Rev. cuba. inf. cienc. salud [online]. 2024, vol.35  Epub May 01, 2024. ISSN 2307-2113.

Scopus is one of the scientific literature databases with the greatest global and regional reach. Scimago Journal Rank, based on Scopus data, classifies 49 specific subject areas within the field of Medicine. The objectives of the article were to identify the characteristics of the Latin American medicine journals that were indexed in Scopus, but that were discontinued, and to determine the reasons why they were excluded from the database during the last decade. The findings show that for 2013-2022 period a total of 745 journals were discontinued globally; 21 of these journals were from Latin America and the Caribbean, 14 of them were journals of the Medicine areas. In conclusion, the majority of journals discontinued in the last decade in Scopus were excluded due to publication problems; while Latin American journals for reasons of performance metrics.

Keywords : periodicals; bibliographic databases; publications; bibliometrics; Latin America.