Resumen

CANEDO ANDALIA, Rubén et al. The role of scientific collaboration in the impact of Cuban health research on the Latin American context. Rev. cuba. inf. cienc. salud [online]. 2016, vol.27, n.1, pp.56-74. ISSN 2307-2113.

In order to discover the patterns of scientific collaboration and its impact on citation rates for Cuban health research by areas of knowledge from 2009 to 2013, Scival, as a platform for scientometrical studies developed by Elsevier from Scopus data, was explored regarding the chosen countries and indicators. Compared with the Latin American countries studied, low levels of international collaboration predominated in the areas that constitute the pillar of Cuban National Health System: primary care (medicine, dentistry and nursing). Also, high percentages predominated regarding articles written with institutional collaboration, a behavior that tends to reduce levels of citation of national contributions in the international context. The citation levels of articles written by Cuban authors with international cooperation in the whole number of the analyzed areas of knowledge, except for the case of neurosciences, are higher than the levels of the ones elaborated with national and institutional cooperation or without any collaboration. Scientific collaboration is an appropriate way both to obtain more and better results in health research and to increase their levels of citation.

Palabras clave : scientific production; research collaboration; health sciences; scientometrics; Cuba.