RESUMEN
This article deals with the history and evolution of students scientific journals in Latin-America, their beginnings, how many still exist and which is their future projection. Relevant events show the growth of students scientific journals in Latin-America and how are they working together to improve their quality. This article is addressed not only for Latin American readers but also to worldwide readers. Latin American medical students are consistently working together to publish scientific research, whose quality is constantly improving.
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Humanos , Publicaciones Periódicas como Asunto/normas , Edición , Estudiantes de Medicina , América Latina , Edición/normas , Edición/estadística & datos numéricosRESUMEN
La producción científica de un país y de una institución es considerada un indicador directo del desarrollo científico; si tomamos como medida de aporte a la comunidad científica la publicación, resalta que el mayor aporte a la ciencia mundial en revistas ISI (Institute for Scientific Information) está dado por las grandes potencias industriales, siendo los Estados Unidos la de mayor producción, seguida por Japón, Reino Unido y Alemania; en contraste, encontramos que Latinoamérica y el Caribe solo aporta el 3% de la producción científica mundial, donde se destacan en la publicación biomédica Brasil, Argentina, México, Venezuela y Chile.
The scientific production of a country and an institution is considered a direct indicator of scientific development; If we take the publication as a measure of contribution to the scientific community, it highlights that the greatest contribution to world science in ISI (Institute for Scientific Information) journals is given by the great industrial powers, with the United States being the one with the highest production, followed by Japan, the United Kingdom and Germany; In contrast, we find that Latin America and the Caribbean only contributes 3% of world scientific production, where Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Venezuela and Chile stand out in the biomedical publication