Aleixandre R, de la Cueva A, Almero A, Osca J, Giménez J V
Instituto de Estudios Documentales e Históricos sobre la Ciencia, Universitat de València, CSIC.
Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin. 1995 Jun-Jul;13(6):338-44.
Reasons for the quantitative study of the Spanish publications on AIDS are both the huge volume attained by the printed material on the subject since the first case was described in 1981 by the Center for Disease Control, and the high incidence of the cases reported on this disease.
Searches have been performed on the subject through the database of the Indice Médico Español (IME), the Indice Español de Ciencia y Technología (ICYT), the ISBN and Bibliografía Española in order to retrieve all possible Spanish journal papers' and books. The references were distributed using criteria of documentary tipology, publication date, institutions involved, autonomous communities, and, finally, after its relation with the confirmed cases of AIDS.
A total 2,013 items have been retrieved, 1,821 journal papers' and 192 books. More than 50% of the papers are published only by five journals, being 139 the total number of journals able to carry pertinent information. The most productive journals were Medicina Clínica and Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología Clínica.
The results confirm exponential growth of the publications from 1983, the first year when a paper was published on AIDS in Spain. The grow is similar to the tend observed in other countries. Parallelism has been detected between growth in the number of publications and in the number of journals publishing on the subject, the growth in the number of journals publishing on the subject, the growth in the number of institutions which collaborate and the growing tend of reported cases in Spain. The results of the bibliometric study, showing an epidemiological growth out of comparison in the history of the scientific literature, could be useful both to information scientists, and to the research inside this scientific field.
对西班牙关于艾滋病的出版物进行定量研究的原因，一是自1981年疾病控制中心描述首例病例以来，该主题的印刷材料数量庞大，二是该疾病报告病例的高发病率。
通过西班牙医学索引（IME）、西班牙科学与技术索引（ICYT）、国际标准书号和西班牙书目数据库对该主题进行检索，以获取所有可能的西班牙期刊论文和书籍。参考文献根据文献类型、出版日期、相关机构、自治区进行分类，最后根据其与确诊艾滋病病例的关系进行分类。
共检索到2013篇文献，其中1821篇期刊论文和192本书籍。超过50%的论文仅由五种期刊发表，能够刊载相关信息的期刊总数为139种。发表量最高的期刊是《临床医学》和《临床感染与微生物学》。
结果证实了自1983年西班牙第一篇关于艾滋病的论文发表以来，出版物呈指数增长。这种增长与其他国家观察到的趋势相似。已发现出版物数量的增长与发表该主题的期刊数量的增长、合作机构数量的增长以及西班牙报告病例数量的增长趋势之间存在平行关系。文献计量学研究结果显示出科学文献史上无与伦比的流行病学增长，这对信息科学家和该科学领域的研究都可能有用。
