Departamento de Neurofisiología, Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía "MVS" Ciudad de México, México.
Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Facultad de Medicina, Puebla. Mexico.
CNS Neurol Disord Drug Targets. 2024;23(6):784-790. doi: 10.2174/1871527322666230518115952.
Bibliometric analysis allows us to quantify and evaluate scientific activity, and it has become increasingly important in all areas of scientific literature. Thanks to these analyses, we can infer where science should put greater efforts into elucidating the underlying mechanisms of diseases that have yet to be fully described or investigated.
This paper delves into published articles related to the involvement of calcium (Ca) channels in epilepsy, which is a condition with a high prevalence in Latin America.
We followed the scientific publication on SCOPUS and analyzed the impact of publications from Latin America in the field of epilepsy and the study of Ca channels. We identified the countries with the largest number of publications and found that 68% of them were experimental (animal models), while 32% were clinical. We also identified the main journals, growth over time, and citation numbers.
We found a total of 226 works produced by Latin American countries from 1976 to 2022. The countries that have contributed the most to the topic are Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina, with occasional collaborations between them to make contributions to the study of epilepsy and Ca channels. Additionally, we found that the journal with the most citations is Nature Genetics.
The number of authors per article ranges from 1 to 242, and neuroscience journals are the preferred target for researchers, with a predilection for publishing original articles, although 26% of the publications are review articles.
文献计量分析使我们能够量化和评估科学活动，它在科学文献的各个领域变得越来越重要。通过这些分析，我们可以推断出科学应该在哪些方面投入更多的努力，以阐明尚未完全描述或研究的疾病的潜在机制。
本文深入探讨了与钙（Ca）通道在癫痫中的作用相关的已发表文章，癫痫在拉丁美洲的发病率很高。
我们遵循 SCOPUS 上的科学出版物，分析了拉丁美洲在癫痫和 Ca 通道研究领域的出版物的影响。我们确定了发表文章数量最多的国家，并发现其中 68%是实验性的（动物模型），32%是临床性的。我们还确定了主要期刊、随时间的增长和引用数量。
我们从 1976 年到 2022 年共发现了 226 项由拉丁美洲国家完成的工作。对该主题贡献最多的国家是巴西、墨西哥和阿根廷，它们偶尔会合作，为癫痫和 Ca 通道的研究做出贡献。此外，我们发现引用次数最多的期刊是《自然遗传学》。
每篇文章的作者数量从 1 到 242 不等，神经科学期刊是研究人员的首选目标，他们倾向于发表原创文章，尽管 26%的出版物是评论文章。
