Abstract

JIMENEZ VILLAMIZAR, María Paola; PEREZ ANAYA, Oskarly; ARAUJO ZUNIGA, Heygui Tiffany  and  CABALLERO DOMINGUEZ, Carmen Cecilia. Evaluation of Colombian medical and health sciences journals using the Osk Index. Rev. cuba. inf. cienc. salud [online]. 2021, vol.32, n.4, e1763.  Epub Feb 01, 2022. ISSN 2307-2113.

The purpose of the study was to evaluate Colombian medical and health sciences journals using a comprehensive measurement system for Colombian scientific journals based on the Osk Index. An analysis was conducted of 33 Colombian medical and health sciences journals indexed in the National Bibliographic Index Publindex as of call for papers number 768 of 2016, from which only editions and citations from 1 January to 31 December 2017 were considered. The publication with the highest score was Biomédica, with an index of 314.30 for the year 2017, followed by Revista Colombiana de Cardiología with 206.81 and Revista de Salud Pública with 201.15, all three of them in level O1. On the opposite end, and grouped from highest to lowest in level O4 are the journals Duazary (41.78), Revista Facultad de Odontología Universidad de Antioquia (38.19) and Vitae (35.12). Conclusions point to the need to review the classification model currently applied to Colombian journals, Publindex, bearing in mind the particular features revealed by the study. It is therefore recommended to implement a comprehensive measurement model or system, as is the case with the Osk Index.

Keywords : Scientific journals; Osk Index; Publindex; editions; citations; Colombia.

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