Introduction:

Peruvian nursing research is going through serious difficulties in terms of scientific production. Changing this reality implies working from the university, where those who advise research work are expected to contribute.

Objective:

To identify the frequency of scientific publication of nursing thesis advisors from 3 universities in the department of Puno, Peru.

Methods:

Descriptive, cross-sectional and observational study. With a population of 66 thesis advisers from: Universidad Nacional del Altiplano, Universidad Peruana Unión and Universidad Privada San Carlos; carried out between april - july 2019. A registration form was used to collect sociodemographic data and the scientific publication was analyzed using the Google Scholar search engine and the Scopus database. A descriptive analysis was performed using absolute frequencies and percentages. Ethical considerations were taken into account.

Results:

60.61% of thesis advisors have a master's degree, 63.64% work at the same university, 56.06% are appointed and 37.88% have up to 5 years of experience in university teaching. Regarding scientific publication, 16.67% published sometime in their life and only 6.06% in the last 3 years; Of this group, 4 managed to spread in Scielo and 1 in Scopus. Of the publications, 10 are original and 1 is for review. No consultant is registered as a researcher at the Renacyt de Concytec-Perú.

Conclusion:

the frequency of publication of nursing thesis advisors in 3 universities in Puno, Peru, is low and worrying.

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