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Avaliação dos artigos de pneumologia publicados em periódicos Brasileiros além do Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia / Evaluation of articles on pulmonology published in Brazilian journals other than the Brazilian Journal of Pulmonology

A pesquisa em pneumologia no Brasil tem apresentado progressivo destaque nos últimos anos e, além do Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia, outros periódicos têm contribuído com a publicação de manuscritos relevantes nessa área. Esse artigo teve por objetivo descrever resumidamente os principais trabalhos publicados no biênio 2009-2010 em pneumologia em outros importantes periódicos nacionais. Foram publicados 56 artigos das diferentes subáreas das doenças respiratórias.

In Brazil, research on pulmonology has become increasingly more visible in recent years. In addition to the Brazilian Journal of Pulmonology, other journals have contributed to that by publishing relevant articles in this area. The objective of this article was to briefly report the most relevant studies on pulmonology that were published in other important Brazilian journals between 2009 and 2010. Altogether, there were 56 articles related to the various subareas that compose the field of respiratory diseases.

Review of the Journal of Communicable Diseases from 1982 through 1991.

Review of medical journals is not common in India. A quantitative review of the articles published in the Journal of Communicable Diseases from 1982 through 1991 was undertaken in the present study to give feedback to all concerned and stimulate them for initiating constructive criticism of medical journals published in India. Articles were categorised as per the classes of four predetermined parameters and variations in the proportions of number of articles under different classes of each parameter are briefly discussed.

Visión de la investigación en Chile a través de algunos indicadores epistemométricos / Overview of research in Chile by several scientometric indicators

Scientific productivity in Chile was studied examining a data bank constructed with the publications indexed by the Institue for Scientific Information during 1987 and 1988. the bank excludes meeting abstracts and contains the full title of the publisched paper, the list of authors, addresses, field, and the nature of collaboration two or more institutions. The articles were classified in different fields and tabulated according to the institution from which they originated. Although remains to be the more productive subjective (26.5%) followed by medical sciences (23.9%) and chemistry (12.3%), articles in mathematics and physics continued theri increase as in previous years. Using the scientometric indicators published by Braun et al (see refs. 14-17), the impact of the research originated in Chile in biology, physics and mathematics was compared to that attained in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Venezuela. The role of the chilean National Research Fund and the output of the financed resarch projects were also analyzed. The succesful results obtained during the first years in which the National Research Fund has been involved in the support of the scientific activity in Chile, confirms the need to strenghten its budget, according to the foals stated in the National Plan for Science and Technology for Development