Tendencia de publicación en las revistas odontológicas colombianas indexadas en publindex: un análisis bibliométrico

Abstract

Objective: to carry out a bibliometric analysis of the Colombian dental journal electronically avalaible that were include in the Índice Bibliográfico Nacional (IBN) Publindex until June 2014. Methods: a observational cross-sectional study was done. The study population consisted of 746 articles published in eight scientific dental journals that were indexed in the IBN Publindex to June 2014. The sample size was 274 papers; the variables analyzed were the name of the journal, number of authors, name, gender and country in which the autor lives, affiliation and occupation of the first author, study design, type of article, subject, date of receipt and acceptance, number of references and citations, and key words in English and Spanish. Measures of central tendency and dispersion as well as frequencies and proportions were calculated; Kruskal Wallis test was applied due to the distribution of variables. The productivity index suggested by Lotka, the rate of transience and institutional index were calculated. In addition, the collaboration networks established between countries and authors were established. A p<0.05 was considered as statiscally significant.