López Espinosa, José Antonio and González Llorente, Sulexy and Guerrero Ramos, Liliana Análisis crítico de las revistas médicas cubanas. ACIMED, 1999, vol. 7, n. 3. [Journal article (Unpaginated)]
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English abstract
It is know from experience that the Cuban medical journals have publishing and content difficulties. Taking this antecedent into consideration, these publications were evaluated using as a reference similar publications fron Spain and Latin America that are included in international databases. To this end, the MEDLINE database and the periodicals file of the National Medical Library were consulted. All the titles of the Cuban medical journals were physically reviewed and the publishers as well as the medical advisors of the National Center of Information on Medical Sciences were interviewed. It was proved that the journals from Spain and Latin America meet the quality requirements that alow them to be included in selective databases, whereas the Cuban journals are in a state of crisis due to the poor quality of their content and to the marked deficiencies found in their publishing processing. A methodology project that may be used as a guide to analyze all those factors limiting or impeding the acknowledgment of these journals on the part of the scientific community is put into the consideration of the board of directors of the Medical Sciences Publishing House. This project may also act as a model for establishing strategies that help to alleviate this situation.
Spanish abstract
Por experiencia se sabe que las revistas médicas cubanas presentan dificultades desde el punto de vista editorial y de contenido. Con este antecedente se evaluaron dichas publicaciones, y se tomaron como referencia sus homólogas del área hispanolatinoamericana incluidas en bases de datos internacionales. A tal efecto se consultaron la base de datos MEDLINE y el fichero hemerográfico de la Biblioteca Médica Nacional; se revisaron físicamente todos los títulos de revistas médicas cubanas y se entrevistaron a sus respectivos editores, así como a los médicos asesores del Centro Nacional de Información de Ciencias Médicas. Se comprobó que las revistas hispanolatinoamericanas cumplen requisitos de calidad, que les permiten mantenerse incluidas en bases de datos de carácter selectivo, mientras que las cubanas se encuentran en estado de crisis, dada la baja calidad de su contenido y las marcadas deficiencias en su procesamiento editorial. Se somete a la consideración de los directivos de la Editorial Ciencias Médicas un proyecto de metodología, que puede constituir una guía de análisis de todos los factores que limitan o impiden el reconocimiento por parte de la comunidad científica de las revistas objeto de estudio, a la vez que servir de pauta para establecer estrategias que ayuden a paliar esta situación.
Item type: | Journal article (Unpaginated) |
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Keywords: | Bibliografía de medicina; publicaciones periódicas; análisis critico; evaluación de publicaciones/métodos; bibliography of medicine; periodicals; critical analysis; publishing evaluation/methods; Cuba. |
Subjects: | H. Information sources, supports, channels. |
Depositing user: | Cuerpo Editorial ACIMED |
Date deposited: | 08 Aug 2004 |
Last modified: | 02 Oct 2014 11:59 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10760/5269 |
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