Abstract

GONZALEZ LLORENTE, Sulexy  and  GUERRERO RAMOS, Liliana. Análisis crítico de las revistas médicas cubanas. ACIMED [online]. 1999, vol.7, n.3, pp.171-181. ISSN 1024-9435.

It is know from experience that the Cuban medical journals have publishing and content difficulties. Taking this antecedent into consideration, these publications were evaluated using as a reference similar publications fron Spain and Latin America that are included in international databases. To this end, the MEDLINE database and the periodicals file of the National Medical Library were consulted. All the titles of the Cuban medical journals were physically reviewed and the publishers as well as the medical advisors of the National Center of Information on Medical Sciences were interviewed. It was proved that the journals from Spain and Latin America meet the quality requirements that alow them to be included in selective databases, whereas the Cuban journals are in a state of crisis due to the poor quality of their content and to the marked deficiencies found in their publishing processing. A methodology project that may be used as a guide to analyze all those factors limiting or impeding the acknowledgment of these journals on the part of the scientific community is put into the consideration of the board of directors of the Medical Sciences Publishing House. This project may also act as a model for establishing strategies that help to alleviate this situation.

Keywords : BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MEDICINE; PERIODICALS; CRITICAL ANALYSIS; PUBLISHING EVALUATION [methods].

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