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      Publicaciones de autores chilenos en revistas quirúrgicas durante los últimos diez años Translated title: Analysis of scientific publications by Chilean surgeons

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          Introducción: Caracterizar la producción científica personal, institucional o nacional es una necesidad para comprender y mejorar la generación de conocimiento. El objetivo de este estudio es definir el perfil bibliométrico de las publicaciones ISI, relacionadas con la cirugía chilena en el período 2001-2010. Material y Método: Estudio bibliométrico. Se realizó una búsqueda en la plataforma ISI Web of Knowledge de Thomson Reuters respecto de la productividad científica de la cirugía chilena en los últimos 10 años. Las variables analizadas fiieron número de publicaciones, citaciones de artículos chilenos por año, revistas en las que se publicó, idioma de las publicaciones, autores, instituciones y países de coautoría. Resultados: Se identificaron 380 artículos, 333 de los cuales (87,6%) se registraron en el período 2006-2010. Fueron citados en 1.946 oportunidades (Factor de Impacto de 5,12 e índice-h de 21). Los artículos fueron publicados en Rev Chil Cir (33,4%), Obes Surg (8,15%) y World J Surg (3,6%). Las instituciones con mayor representación fueron Universidad de Chile (33,9%), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (21,0%) y Universidad de La Frontera (8,4%). Conclusión: La producción científica de la cirugía chilena ha mostrado un importante ascenso desde el inicio del período en estudio hasta la fecha. De la misma forma, se observa un incremento de las citaciones de estos artículos.

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          Background: The number and quality of publications is an indirect measure of the capacity of an individual, institution or country to generate knowledge. Aim: To assess the number of publications of Chilean surgeons, registered in the Institute for Scientific Knowledge (ISI). Material and Methods: A search was conducted in the ISI platform for publications generated by Chilean surgeons in the last ten years. The number of publications and citations, the journals in which the publications appeared and nationality of coauthors, were analyzed. Results: Three hundred and eighty papers were identified. Of these, 333 (88%) were published in the period 2006-2010. The papers were cited in 1.946 opportunities (impact factor of 5.12 and h-index of 21). Thirty three percent of papers were published in Revista Chilena de Cirugía, 8% in Obesity Surgery and 4% in the World Journal of Surgery. Thirty four percent of papers came from the University of Chile, 21% from Catholic University and 8% from Universidad de la Frontera. Conclusions: The number of publications of Chilean surgeons is experiencing an increase in the last years.

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              Spanish personal name variations in national and international biomedical databases: implications for information retrieval and bibliometric studies.

              The study sought to investigate how Spanish names are handled by national and international databases and to identify mistakes that can undermine the usefulness of these databases for locating and retrieving works by Spanish authors. The authors sampled 172 articles published by authors from the University of Granada Medical School between 1987 and 1996 and analyzed the variations in how each of their names was indexed in Science Citation Index (SCI), MEDLINE, and Indice Medico Español (IME). The number and types of variants that appeared for each author's name were recorded and compared across databases to identify inconsistencies in indexing practices. We analyzed the relationship between variability (number of variants of an author's name) and productivity (number of items the name was associated with as an author), the consequences for retrieval of information, and the most frequent indexing structures used for Spanish names. The proportion of authors who appeared under more then one name was 48.1% in SCI, 50.7% in MEDLINE, and 69.0% in IME. Productivity correlated directly with variability: more than 50% of the authors listed on five to ten items appeared under more than one name in any given database, and close to 100% of the authors listed on more than ten items appeared under two or more variants. Productivity correlated inversely with retrievability: as the number of variants for a name increased, the number of items retrieved under each variant decreased. For the most highly productive authors, the number of items retrieved under each variant tended toward one. The most frequent indexing methods varied between databases. In MEDLINE and IME, names were indexed correctly as "first surname second surname, first name initial middle name initial" (if present) in 41.7% and 49.5% of the records, respectively. However, in SCI, the most frequent method was "first surname, first name initial second name initial" (48.0% of the records) and first surname and second surname run together, first name initial (18.3%). Retrievability on the basis of author's name was poor in all three databases. Each database uses accurate indexing methods, but these methods fail to result in consistency or coherence for specific entries. The likely causes of inconsistency are: (1) use by authors of variants of their names during their publication careers, (2) lack of authority control in all three databases, (3) the use of an inappropriate indexing method for Spanish names in SCI, (4) authors' inconsistent behaviors, and (5) possible editorial interventions by some journals. We offer some suggestions as to how to avert the proliferation of author name variants in the databases.
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                Journal
                rchcir
                Revista chilena de cirugía
                Rev Chil Cir
                Sociedad de Cirujanos de Chile (Santiago, , Chile )
                0718-4026
                October 2012
                : 64
                : 5
                : 447-451
                Affiliations
                [03] Temuco orgnameUniversidad de La Frontera orgdiv1Facultad de Medicina orgdiv2Departamento de Cirugía y Traumatología Chile
                [01] Temuco orgnameUniversidad de La Frontera orgdiv1Programa de Magíster en Ciencias Médicas, Mención Cirugía Chile
                [02] Temuco orgnameUniversidad de La Frontera orgdiv1Programa de Doctorado en Ciencias Médicas Chile
                Article
                S0718-40262012000500006 S0718-4026(12)06400500006
                10.4067/S0718-40262012000500006
                ce0b1c1c-57e2-4828-b6ca-de9c70a627df

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

                History
                : 11 May 2012
                : 12 April 2012
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                Figures: 0, Tables: 0, Equations: 0, References: 11, Pages: 5
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                ARTÍCULOS DE INVESTIGACIÓN

                Surgery,Bibliometrics,bibliometría,ISI Web of knowledge,cirugía,Procedimientos quirúrgicos,Surgical Procedures, Operative

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