Tendencia de publicación en las revistas odontológicas colombianas desde julio de 2014 hasta junio de 2020: un análisis bibliométrico

Abstract

Introduction: bibliometrics studies scientific production, allowing the impact of research to be assessed. Few studies have been carried out on this subject, therefore, there is a need to investigate Colombian dental research. Objective: To carry out a bibliometric analysis of the publications included in nine Colombian dental journals from July 2014 to June 2020. Materials and methods: an observational, descriptive, cross-sectional, secondary source, and descriptive study was carried out. From a population of 723 articles, a stratified probability sampling was performed, resulting in a sample size of 377 articles. A 5% non-response rate was added, resulting in a sample size of 396 articles. Twenty-nine variables were analyzed, such as journal name, publishing institution, number of authors, first author's surname, first author's sex, first author's institutional affiliation, first author's country of affiliation, first author's highest level of education, first author's institutional affiliation, second author's surname, second author's sex, institutional affiliation of the second author, country of affiliation of the second author, highest level of education of the second author, institutional affiliation of the second author, nature of the article, type of article, study design, subject, date of submission, date of acceptance, number of references, number of citations, first keyword and first keyword. A univariate statistical analysis was performed in Stata/MP version 14.0, calculating mean or median for quantitative variables and absolute frequency and percentage for qualitative variables. As a complement, the data was analyzed in Vantage Point software. Results: of the 389 articles evaluated, the first authors with the highest number of published articles was 10 (7.7%) with a total of 3 articles each. The second authors with the highest number of published articles was 2 (1.7%) with a total of 3 articles each. Of the first authors, 58.1% were women. Of the second authors, 57.3% were women. The institution with the highest number of affiliations of first and second authors was the Universidad del Valle with a percentage of 12.9% and 12.1%, respectively. Of the total number of first and second authors, the majority resided in Colombia with a percentage of 77.2% and 74.5%, respectively. Most of the articles were written by specialists with first authors making up a percentage of 23.7% and 22.5% for second authors. The institutions in which the first and second authors were affiliated were mostly public, with a percentage of 53.4% and 50.0%, respectively. From the total number of articles evaluated, 72.8% corresponded to internal articles. The most frequent type of articles were original articles, with a percentage of 69.4%, whose design was a cross-sectional study with a percentage of 38.0%, and the predominant topic in the articles studied was Public Health/Epidemiology with 20.8%. Half of the articles evaluated were written by 4 authors. The median number of references in the articles was 28 and the median number of citations per article was 1. Conclusions: the total median time between the date of submission and the date of acceptance was 152 days, the median number of references was 28 and the median number of citations was 1: All journals evaluated had a decrease in the number of publications in the first half of 2020. The most frequent topic found in the articles studied was Public Health/Epidemiology. Most of the first and second authors were female, being mostly specialists. Colombia was the country of origin for the majority of first and second authors.