Introduction:

Scientific publication by thesis advisors is a cornerstone of research.

Objective:

To assess the frequency of scientific publication corresponding to thesis advisors of a Medical School at the National University of Huancayo, Peru.

Methods:

Cross-sectional and observational study, in which the curriculum vitae of 31 teachers who were thesis advisors between 2008 and 2018 was reviewed by the National Council of Science, Technology and Technological Innovation of Peru. In addition, the search was carried out of his articles through Google Scholar, Scopus, PubMed, Medline, Scielo and ORCID, in view of determining the frequencies and percentages of the following variables: if the advisor published at least once and if that person was ever a corresponding author of a research article.

Results:

45.2% of the professors were registered and their entries yielded at least one research work within the National Council of Science, Technology and Technological Innovation of Peru. 35.5% had research projects once in their life, while 9.7% presented a qualification of "responsible conduct in research" and 3.2% of "researcher". Through bibliometric search, we determined the existence of 56 articles, of which 64.3% were original articles and 72.2% appeared in national journals. Of the professors who had publications, 58% coincided with authors who published an article and 10% made their work known through Scopus or Medline, within the last two years. 26% published an original article at some time in their life; 7%, an original article in Scielo or Scopus/Medline, within the last 2 years; and, finally, as corresponding author, 32% published an article in their entire lifetime: 16% published an original article and 3% did so in the last two years of the study period.

Conclusions:

Scientific publication by thesis advisors is very low. Only half of them have published, at least once in their lives, a scientific article.