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LEON VALDES, Lailín; PERALTA GONZALEZ, María Josefa; FERRER LOZANO, Dunia  e  GOMEZ CANGAS, Ernesto. Informetric study of the scientific literature on gender in Marta Abreu Central University in Las Villas from 2009 to 2011. Rev. cuba. inf. cienc. salud [online]. 2014, vol.25, n.1, pp. 66-86. ISSN 2307-2113.

Objective: this study aimed to describe trends in scientific literature on gender «Marta Abreu» Central University in Las Villas (UCLV) in 2009-2011. Methods: an informetric study was conducted in order to allow the visualization of the main production indicators behavior on this topic. Scientific production and metric information studies as reference the procedure performed were addressed. Results: this study attached the quantitative methodology and it leaned on a database collected from scientific and technical reports from the Faculties of Social Sciences, Law, Humanities, and Psychology, which made it possible to determine the frequency of indicators and dimensions. As key result, a decreasing tend on the scientific literature on gender was noted during 2009-2011, it was materialized in a total of 38 investigations. Conclusions: The Faculty of Psychology has contributed the most to these studies. The thematic diversity has been excelled in the scientific literature on gender, especially in the Faculty of Social Sciences.

Palavras-chave : gender; science communication; scientific; informetrics.

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