Abstract

DORTA CONTRERAS, Alberto J. Visibility and impact of medical sciences in Cuba: apropos of  the 2006 annual health awards  in scientific article. ACIMED [online]. 2007, vol.16, n.3. ISSN 1024-9435.

The National Health Award has become a relevant scientific event of the Cuban medical sciences. The  visibility and impact of the annual health awards granted in 2006  in the  modality of scientific articles are analyzed. To this end,  PubMed and Web of Science databases, as well as  Scopus and Google Scholar databases,  were reviewed to evaluate the  visibility and impact. 75 % of the awarded  publications  were processed by PubMed and Web of Science. As regards the impact factor of the journals, 2 had a very high impact factor, 4 a high impact factor,  1 a moderate impact factor and 2 did not have a recognized impact factor. Three articles were had 8 or more citations in Scopus and Google Scholar. This paper may contribute to open the study of this kind of analysis of the national scientific production.

Keywords : Impact factor; citations; visibility; Scopus; PuMed; Google Scholar; Web of Science.

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