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VEGA ALMEIDA, Rosa Lidia; ARENCIBIA JORGE, Ricardo  e  ARAUJO RUIZ, Juan Antonio. Scientific production of the health institutes in Cuba on the Web of Science from 2000 to 2004. ACIMED [online]. 2007, vol.16, n.3, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1024-9435.

OBJECTIVE: To make a metric analysis of the scientific production of the institutes of the National System of Health of the Republic of Cuba during the period 2000-2004 in the main current magazines.  METHODS: A search in the Web of Science was carried out.  The search strategy was based on the use of the word Cuba in the Author Address field.  An analysis of the   production, impact and international collaboration indicators was made.  The collaboration and the research topics were presented by means of graphs based on the analysis of social networks.  RESULTS: The health institutes totalized 295 papers, accounting for 33.20 % of the production of the health sector and the 8.90 % of all the national documents registered in the studied database, with a tendency towards increase. "Pedro Kourí"  Institute of Tropical Medicine and the Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery participated in the 38.0 % and 24.1 % of the total of articles.  A correspondence was observed between the percentage of international collaborations and the article citation levels. The international collaboration was expressed in   43.4 % of the articles linked with a total of 61 countries of the 5 continents. The citation indexes of the international collaborations had generally greater values.  CONCLUSIONS:  The national health institutes play an important role in   the research and  scientific production of the Cuban health sector.  The predominant research lines are related to  the prioritized health problems of the country.

Palavras-chave : Scientific production; national health institutes; Cuba; impact indicators; international collaboration; analysis of social networks.

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