Introduction:

There are no references in Cuba of studies that deal with the scientific production of groups of teachers-researchers who taught Pediatrics as a specialty.

Objective:

To characterize the scientific production of Pediatrics specialty´s professors staff at the Medical Sciences University of Matanzas during the accreditation process of this specialty.

Methods:

Cross-sectional study conducted to the 43 teachers who constituted the staff of this specialty in the five-year period from 2014 to 2018. The study was focused in the publications carried out by such professors in the above mentioned period. There were reviewed the mini-resumes of the teachers and their publications were located via internet. The main variables studied were: specialty, category and scientific degree, teaching and research category, sex, years of teaching experience, publications, ratio publication/teacher, source of the publication, type of article, thematic and country. The analysis used indicators of scientific productivity, collaboration, and movement-dispersion.

Results:

The index of publications was of 110 paper works and the ratio number of publications/teacher was 2.55. The publications focused on 21 teachers, with three large producers. The co-authorship index was 3.77 and the pattern of collaboration that prevailed was at the national level. Original articles (24.5%) and publications in multi-topic medical journals (36%) predominated.

Conclusions:

The publications of the Pediatrics specialty´s staff meet the quality requirements of the Subsystem for the Evaluation and Accreditation of Postgraduate specialties in Cuba for obtaining the certificate level.

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