González de Dios J, Aleixandre Benavent R
Departamento de Pediatría, Hospital Universitario San Juan, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Alicante, Spain.
An Pediatr (Barc). 2004 Sep;61(3):242-51. doi: 10.1016/s1695-4033(04)78804-9.
The international bibliographic databases (Medline, Embase, Current Contents, etc.) are one of the main sources of information in medicine. Because only some Spanish journals are included in these databases, knowledge and use of the Indice Médico Español (IME) is also important because this database includes almost all Spanish biomedical and scientific journals (basic, experimental and clinical), which provides certain well known advantages for authors and editors in Spain. Of the journals indexed at any given time in the IME (461 journals), those related to pediatrics constitute 5.2 % of the total (24 journals) with a total of 21,006 documents. Only 34 % of all the pediatrics documents in the IME are included in PubMed. The most productive pediatrics journals in the IME are Anales Españoles de Pediatría (8,639, plus 912 registered from 2002 as Anales de Pediatría), Revista Española de Pediatría (2,564), Acta Pediátrica Española (2,189), Archivos de Pediatría (1,365), Pediatrika (1,314), and Cirugía Pediátrica (685). Anales de Pediatría is the third most productive journal in the IME, after Medicina Clínica (13,323) and Revista Clínica Española (9,603). Overall, pediatrics is the second most productive field of research in medicine in Spain after internal medicine. A complementary tool of the IME is the hypothetical study of the national and international impact factor (IF) of Spanish biomedical journals. The hypothetical national IF of Anales de Pediatría (0.334) is noteworthy among Spanish medical journals overall and is much higher than those of Acta Pediátrica Española (0.134), Pediatrika (0.119), Cirugía Pediátrica (0.099) and Revista Española de Pediatría (0.079). The international IF of Anales de Pediatría (0.372) is higher than that of some pediatrics journals included in the Science Citation Index. The IME should be included in bibliographic search strategies for scientific information in pediatrics as a complement to international databases.
国际文献数据库（医学索引数据库、荷兰医学文摘数据库、现刊目次数据库等）是医学信息的主要来源之一。由于这些数据库仅收录了部分西班牙期刊，因此了解和使用西班牙医学索引（IME）也很重要，因为该数据库收录了几乎所有西班牙生物医学和科学期刊（基础、实验和临床方面），这为西班牙的作者和编辑提供了一些众所周知的优势。在IME在任何给定时间收录的期刊（461种）中，与儿科学相关的期刊占总数的5.2%（24种），共有21006篇文献。IME中所有儿科学文献仅有34%被收录在医学期刊数据库中。IME中发文量最高的儿科学期刊是《西班牙儿科学年鉴》（8639篇，加上2002年起注册为《儿科学年鉴》的912篇）、《西班牙儿科学杂志》（2564篇）、《西班牙儿科学学报》（2189篇）、《儿科学档案》（1365篇）、《儿科学》（1314篇）和《小儿外科》（685篇）。《儿科学年鉴》是IME中发文量第三高的期刊，仅次于《临床内科医学》（13323篇）和《西班牙临床杂志》（9603篇）。总体而言，儿科学是西班牙医学领域中仅次于内科的第二大高产研究领域。IME的一个补充工具是对西班牙生物医学期刊的国内和国际影响因子（IF）进行假设性研究。《儿科学年鉴》的假设国内影响因子（0.334）在西班牙医学期刊中总体上值得关注，远高于《西班牙儿科学学报》（0.134）、《儿科学》（0.119）、《小儿外科》（0.099）和《西班牙儿科学杂志》（0.079）。《儿科学年鉴》的国际影响因子（0.372）高于科学引文索引收录的一些儿科学期刊。IME应作为国际数据库的补充，纳入儿科学科学信息的文献检索策略中。
