Pacheco Aispuro Gerónimo, Rojas Jácome Ileana Belén, Martínez Zamora Carlos Alejandro, Gil-Ortiz Mejía Cuauhtémoc, Mader Christopher, Castillo Rangel Carlos, Monroy Sosa Alejandro, Flores-Vázquez Mario, Arroyo Zavala Octavio Jesús, Ramos-Zúñiga Rodrigo, González Garibay Guillermo, Ángel Alavez Gerson, Lee Ángel
Department of Neurology, Hospital Ángeles del Pedregal, Mexico City 10700, Mexico.
Mexican Faculty of Medicine, Universidad La Salle, Mexico City 06140, Mexico.
Healthcare (Basel). 2023 Jun 12;11(12):1725. doi: 10.3390/healthcare11121725.
This study employed bibliometric analysis to ascertain the research focus areas among a group of Mexican physicians affiliated with the Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales de los Trabajadores del Estado (ISSSTE). ISSSTE, a healthcare institution catering to a diverse range of diseases, offers a distinctive perspective on the investigated specialties within the realm of health. The primary objective was to identify knowledge gaps in medical care disciplines through a comprehensive examination of scholarly publications.
We retrieved Scopus papers affiliated with "ISSSTE" and saved them as .CSV files. Subsequently, we employed VOSviewer, biblioshiny, and bibliometrix for bibliometric analysis. This enabled us to identify prominent institutions, prolific authors, highly cited researchers, and their respective affiliations.
Our analysis identified 2063 publications; the specialty internal medicine accounted for the greatest proportion with 831 publications. Original papers accounted for 82% of the total, with 52% of them being written in Spanish. The majority of scientific output, 92%, originated from Mexico City. The annual production has steadily increased since 2010, peaking in 2021 with over 200 publications. However, papers on prevalent conditions, such as metabolic syndrome, received limited citations, and the L0 index (percentage of uncited items) for all papers is close to 60%. Scopus mislabeled one affiliation, and some cases show a low paper-to-author ratio of 0.5 Discussion: Additional concerns, such as honorary authorship due to excessive authors per paper, and the underlying causes of low citation rates in Mexican publications, warrant further examination. Moreover, our research emphasizes the urgency of bolstering research and development funding, which was consistently below 0.5% of GDP for the past four decades, falling short of legal mandates and international benchmarks. We endorse the establishment of robust research collectives in Latin America to address these challenges, foster regional scientific output, and transition from knowledge consumers to knowledge producers, thereby reducing dependence on foreign technology.
本研究采用文献计量分析方法，以确定隶属于墨西哥国家工人社会保障和服务局（ISSSTE）的一组墨西哥医生的研究重点领域。ISSSTE是一家治疗多种疾病的医疗机构，在健康领域的被调查专业方面提供了独特的视角。主要目标是通过对学术出版物的全面审查，找出医疗保健学科中的知识空白。
我们检索了与“ISSSTE”相关的Scopus论文，并将其保存为.csv文件。随后，我们使用VOSviewer、biblioshiny和bibliometrix进行文献计量分析。这使我们能够识别杰出机构、多产作者、高被引研究人员及其各自的所属机构。
我们的分析确定了2063篇出版物；内科专业的出版物数量最多，为831篇。原创论文占总数的82%，其中52%是用西班牙语撰写的。大部分科研成果（92%）来自墨西哥城。自2010年以来，年产出稳步增长，在2021年达到峰值，超过200篇出版物。然而，关于代谢综合征等常见病症的论文被引用次数有限，所有论文的L0指数（未被引用项目的百分比）接近60%。Scopus错误标注了一个所属机构，并且在一些案例中，论文与作者的比例较低，为0.5。讨论：其他问题，如每篇论文作者过多导致的荣誉作者问题，以及墨西哥出版物引用率低的根本原因，都值得进一步研究。此外，我们的研究强调了增加研发资金的紧迫性，在过去四十年里，研发资金一直低于国内生产总值的0.5%，未达到法律规定和国际标准。我们支持在拉丁美洲建立强大的研究团体，以应对这些挑战，促进区域科研产出，并从知识消费者转变为知识生产者，从而减少对外国技术的依赖。
