Alonso-Arroyo Adolfo, González de Dios Javier, Calvo Cristina, Calduch-Losa Ángeles, Aleixandre-Benavent Rafael
Departamento de Historia de la Ciencia y Documentación, Universitat de València, Valencia, España; UISYS, Unidad Mixta de Investigación, Universitat de València-CSIC, Valencia, España.
Departamento de Pediatría, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Alicante, España; Servicio de Pediatría, Hospital General Universitario de Alicante, Alicante, España; ISABIAL-Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria y Biomédica de Alicante, Alicante, España.
An Pediatr (Engl Ed). 2020 Mar;92(3):172.e1-172.e12. doi: 10.1016/j.anpedi.2019.12.009. Epub 2020 Feb 14.
The purpose of this paper is twofold. On the one hand, to identify and characterise the production, citation, impact and collaboration indicators of the Pediatrics area of the Journal Citation Reports, and on the other hand, to place the journal Anales de Pediatría in the context of the Spanish journals of another twenty areas and medical specialties.
The sources of information used to obtain the indicators were Science Citation Index-Expanded, Journal Citation Reports, and Scimago Journal & Country Rank. A regression analysis was performed to determine the correlation between the citation and other variables.
Pediatrics ranked 8th in scientific production during the period 2009-2018. In citations per journal it ranks 17th, and the average citations per article approaches 27, occupying, in this case, the 18th position. Below Pediatrics are Emergency Medicine, Rehabilitation, and Primary Health Care. There are no citations for 12.47% of the articles. The average impact factor places the area in 18th place and its h index was 197, reaching 14th position, and standing above seven other areas. The percentage of works carried out with international collaboration was 17.71%, above Primary Health Care (12.88%), Oncology (16.37%), and Emergency Medicine (17.03%). Among the Spanish journals, Anales de Pediatría was the fourth most productive journal, and occupied an intermediate position in terms of the number of citations.
The indicators of citation and impact of the Pediatrics area tend to be above areas such as Emergency Medicine, Primary Health Care, Dentistry, Oral Surgery & Medicine, and Rehabilitation. Professional practice outside large hospitals, together with poor funding, as well as the low number of clinical trials due to the ethical requirements imposed on studies with children, may be the causes that result in moderate citation and impact indicators.
本文有两个目的。一方面，识别并描述《期刊引证报告》中儿科学领域的论文产出、引用情况、影响力及合作指标；另一方面，将《儿科年鉴》杂志置于另外二十个领域和医学专业的西班牙期刊背景下进行考量。
用于获取指标的信息来源有《科学引文索引（扩展版）》《期刊引证报告》和《Scimago期刊与国家排名》。进行了回归分析以确定引用与其他变量之间的相关性。
儿科学在2009 - 2018年期间的科研产出排名第8。在期刊引用排名中位列第17，每篇文章的平均引用次数接近27，在此项排名中位居第18。在儿科学之下的是急诊医学、康复医学和初级卫生保健。12.47%的文章没有被引用。平均影响因子使该领域位居第18，其h指数为197，排名第14，高于其他七个领域。国际合作开展的研究比例为17.71%，高于初级卫生保健（12.88%）、肿瘤学（16.37%）和急诊医学（17.03%）。在西班牙期刊中，《儿科年鉴》是产出第四高的期刊，在引用次数方面处于中间位置。
儿科学领域的引用和影响力指标往往高于急诊医学、初级卫生保健、牙科、口腔外科与医学以及康复医学等领域。大型医院之外的专业实践、资金不足，以及由于对儿童研究施加的伦理要求导致临床试验数量较少，可能是导致引用和影响指标中等的原因。
