Producción científica en la Revista Cubana de Pediatría durante el período 2005-2016 / Scientific production in the Cuban Journal of Pediatrics during the period 2005-2016

Introducción: La Revista Cubana de Pediatría se ha publicado ininterrumpidamente durante 90 años, sin embargo, no existen estudios bibliométricos que hayan caracterizado su gestión, aspecto que resulta de especial interés para su dirección editorial. Objetivo: Analizar el estado de la producción científica de la Revista Cubana de Pediatría, con vistas al establecimiento de políticas para la mejora continua de sus procesos editoriales. Métodos: Se realizó un estudio bibliométrico descriptivo durante el período 2005-2016. Se utilizaron las bases de datos Scopus y SciELO. Se recuperaron 620 artículos publicados, que se introdujeron en una base de datos ad hoc en EndNote X7, para su normalización. Se aplicó a una batería de indicadores bibliométricos para el análisis de los datos. Se utilizó una perspectiva de género para el análisis de la autoría. Se emplearon los software Bibexcel, UCINET, NetDraw, Gephi y Microsoft Excel 2013 para el procesamiento, análisis y visualización de los datos. Resultados: Se identificaron los autores e instituciones más productivos. Se calculó un índice de Price de 0.41, lo que denota baja actualización de las fuentes utilizadas para el desarrollo de las investigaciones. Predominaron los artículos originales y de revisión, así como el español como lengua de publicación. Se estudiaron las redes de colaboración nacional e internacional, y temáticas. Conclusiones: La escasa contribución internacional en los contenidos y la baja actualidad de las referencias, son los principales aspectos negativos identificados. La caracterización bibliométrica permite conocer factores estratégicos para la futura política editorial de la revista(AU)

Introduction: The Cuban Journal of Pediatrics has been published continuously during 90 years. However, there are not bibliometric studies that have characterized this prestigious journal, which is an aspect of special interest for the Journal´s editorial committee. Objective: To analyze the scientific production of the Cuban Journal of Pediatrics, with the aim to establish policies for the continuous improvement of its editorial processes. Methods: A descriptive bibliometric study was carried out from 2005 to 2016, using Scopus and SciELO databases. A total of 620 published articles were retrieved. The retrieved items were introduced into an ad hoc database using EndNote X7 for normalization purposes. A battery of bibliometric indicators for data analysis was applied. The gender perspective was used to analyze authorship. Bibexcel, UCINET, NetDraw, Gephi and Microsoft Excel 2013 were used as software for data processing, analysis and visualization. Results: The most productive authors and institutions were identified. A Price index of 0.41 was calculated, which indicates low updating of the sources used for research development. Original and review articles were predominant, as well as Spanish as the publication language. National and international collaboration networks were studied. Conclusions: Low international contribution in journal contents, and obsolescence of references were the main negative aspects identified. Bibliometric characterization allowed knowing strategic factors for a future editorial policy of the journal(AU)

Application of Spider Web map in assessment of CSCD-covered journals of pediactrics / 中华医学图书情报杂志

Objective To assess the CSCD-covered 7 journals of pediactrics.Methods The average number of refe rences,cited half life, H index, citation half life, self citation, IF, immediate index, self-cited rate of each paper pub-lished in 2013 in 7 journals of pediactric, covered in China Science and Technology Journal Citation Index Database, were divided into positive correlation group and negative correlation group.Their Spider Web maps were plotted.The papers published in the 7 journals of pediactrics were assessed.Results The top 3 journals, assessed according to the average number of references, IF, and immediate index, were Chinese Journal of Pediatrics,Chinese Journal of Prac-tical Pediatrics, and Chinese Journal of Evidence-based Pediatrics while the top 3 journals, assessed according to their citation half life , self citation, cited half life, and self cited rate, were Chinese Journal of Evidence-based Pe-diatrics,Chinese Journal of Pediatrics, and Journal of Clinical Pediatrics.Conclusion The academic level of the 7 journals of pediatrics is rather high.Chinese Journal of Evidence-based Pediatrics and Chinese Journal of Pediatrics have the highest assessment score.There is a large room for the other 4 journals to improve their academic level.

Academic level of papers on systematic reviews and meta-analysis published in Chinese Journal of Pediatrics and methodology they used / 中华医学图书情报杂志

Objective To assess the academic level of papers on systematic reviews and meta-analysis published in Chinese Journal of Pediatricsand methodology they used.Methods Basic data were extracted from 13 papers on sys-tematic reviews and meta-analysis published in Chinese Journal of Pediatrics .The methodology they used was assessed according to the preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analysis (PRISMA) and ANSTAR Scale and analyzed using the RevMan5.0.Results The PRISMA score was 14-23.5 (mean 20.0±3.11) and the AMSTAR score was 3-7.5 (mean 6.04±1.38) for the methodology used in papers on systematic reviews and meta-analysis published in Chinese Journal of Pediatrics .Conclusion The methodology used in papers on systematic reviews and meta-analy-sis published in Chinese Journal of Pediatrics is not quite valid and should thus be improved .