Torres CJL, Casanueva E

Language: Spanish
References: 13
Page: 169-175
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ABSTRACT

Introduction: The Journal of Perinatología y Reproducción Humana (JPRH) appears in 1987, it belongs to four national indexes, among them: Artemisa of the CENIDS and the index of Latin American Literature in Sciences for Health (LILACS) of the PAHO that covers information of journals of Latin America and the Caribbean. In a hemerographic evaluation of Mexican journals in health, the JPRH was considered as one of the five Mexican magazines that fulfill in complete form the international norms of Vancouver.
Material and methods: All papers published in the JPRH were analyzed, of 1987 to 2000, for that which different aspects were studied, as: publication type, area, specialty, investigation line, origin institution, author’s number and participant institutions and the first author’s gender.
Results: Of the 361 papers analyzed, 67% was original articles, 16% to revision articles, 12% special articles and 5% clinical cases. According to the area of the knowledge: 61% came from the clinical area, 27% of the sociomedical and the rest of the biomedical area. The most frequent specialty was the Gynecology and Obstetrics 11%, Perinatology 11% and the Psychology 9%. For the institutional origin of the first author, 72.3% corresponds to investigators from the Perinatology National Institute and the rest, to other institutions, 4% of the work came from foreign institutions. In relation to the gender to the investigators, 38.5% was women and the rest men.
Discussion: In 1994, the Committee for Evaluation of Biomedical Mexicans Journals of the CENIDS, recommended that an approach for the evaluation of the medical journals, it should be that 65% of the published articles, they were original articles. In our analyses, it highlights the fact that the papers published in the HPRH that required revision, 67% corresponded to that category.

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