Scientific production on fractures in student scientific journals in the five-year period 2017-2022

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.56294/ri202365

Keywords:

Bibliometrics, Health Sciences, Medical Education, Students, Investigation, Scientific and Technical Publications

Abstract

Introduction: the migration of printed science to the digital format has caused an increase in the number of journals, which causes an increase in interest in the study of their operation, not only as a task for editorial committees but also for scientists, librarians, and students.

Objective: to characterize the scientific production on fractures in Cuban student journals of health sciences in the five-year period 2017-2022.

Methods: a metric study was carried out on the scientific production about fractures in Cuban student scientific journals of health sciences during the five-year period 2017-2022. 13 journals of this type, included in the National Registry of Health Sciences Serials, were examined.

Results: a total of 10 articles divided into the types of original article, review article and case presentation were collected. The years of greatest scientific production were 2021 and 2022 with n=4 in each case; the journals Universidad Médica Pinareña and 16 de abril were the leaders in terms of manuscripts published with n=3 each. The longest average time for sending the manuscript and its subsequent acceptance was in 2019 with 14 months.

Conclusions: the scientific production on fractures in student journals is low, characterized by a predominance of original articles of a cross-sectional descriptive type, in Spanish with multiple authorship without international collaboration, frequently with male authors and affiliation with Universities of Medical Sciences and a mean acceptance time of 4,7 months.

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2023-12-20

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Horta-Martínez LE, Sorá-Rodriguez M. Scientific production on fractures in student scientific journals in the five-year period 2017-2022. Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation / Rehabilitacion Interdisciplinaria [Internet]. 2023 Dec. 20 [cited 2025 Mar. 12];3:65. Available from: https://ri.ageditor.ar/index.php/ri/article/view/66