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- Title
Bibliometría: conceptos y utilidades para el estudio médico y la formación profesional.
- Authors
Rodríguez, Manuel Dávila; Sáenz, Roberto Guzmán; Arroyo, Hugo Macareno; Herera, Denia Piñeres; de la Rosa Barranco, Dereck; Caballero-Uribe, Carlo V.
- Abstract
The growth of scientific research in recent times has needed the development and application of various indicators to help measure the importance of research for the scientific community. In the training of general practitioners and medical's resident, there is often a lack or deficit in handling issues concerning the production, management and publication of scientific information, these issues leads to loss of ideas an projects, which are in many libraries and research labs of universities, waiting to become part of the intellectual development in training or to contribute knowledge beyond the scientific and medical community worldwide. One of the main issues of vital importance to anyone interested in the scientific output, research result in medical journals indexed on databases, which determine the quality of work, is their access as a source of truthful information or as a means of publication; this is of great importance to Bibliometrics. It is tangible and objective to makes the quality and quantity of scientific production to necessary use bibliometrics as a tool to achieve a measurable outcome of the scientific literature. Therefore, a revision is made in the medical literature on the importance of bibliometrics, its history, its concepts and applications, in addition to its technical and bibliometric indicators in order to illustrate and provide incentives to doctors in training to understand the world of production and scientific publication.
- Subjects
MEDICAL research; BIBLIOMETRICS; STATISTICAL methods in information science; SCIENTIFIC community; SCIENCE &; society; GENERAL practitioners; MEDICAL journalism; MEDICAL literature; ACQUISITION of scientific publications
- Publication
Salud Uninorte, 2009, Vol 25, Issue 2, p319
- ISSN
0120-5552
- Publication type
Article