Abstract

MORAN-MARINOS, Cristian; NIETO-GUTIERREZ, Wendy  and  PACHECO-MENDOZA, Josmel. Measles in Latin America: a trend analysis and scientific collaboration network in the last 20 years. Rev Cubana Med Trop [online]. 2021, vol.73, n.2, e545.  Epub Aug 01, 2021. ISSN 0375-0760.

With the objective of analyzing the scientific contribution of measles publications and graphing the collaboration networks between countries during the last 20 years. A bibliometric study was conducted between 1999 and 2018 of journals indexed in Scopus. Annual production data were analyzed and a co-occurrence analysis of production and collaboration between countries using VOSviewer was plotted. 587 documents were registered between 1999 and 2018, with a steady trend, the average of annual publications was 29 documents (range 1-44), being 72.4% were original articles. The countries of Brazil (53.3%) and Mexico (17.5%) had greater productivity and collaboration mainly with the United States and the United Kingdom. Measles research in Latin America presents a stationary trend. Brazil and Mexico were the countries with more publications and have greater networks of scientific collaboration with the United States and the United Kingdom.

Keywords : measles; measles vaccine; Latin America; bibliometrics; biomedical research.

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