Dorta-Contreras, AJ; Arencibia-Jorge, R; Marti-Lahera, Y; Araujo-Ruiz, JA PRODUCTIVITY AND VISIBILITY OF CUBAN NEUROSCIENTISTS: BIBLIOMETRIC STUDY OF THE PERIOD 2001-2005 REVISTA DE NEUROLOGIA, 47 (7): 355-360 OCT 1 2008

[Eugene Garfield]

E-mail Address: adorta at infomed.sld.cu

Author(s): Dorta-Contreras, AJ (Dorta-Contreras, A. J.); Arencibia-Jorge, 
R (Arencibia-Jorge, R.); Marti-Lahera, Y (Marti-Lahera, Y.); Araujo-Ruiz, 
JA (Araujo-Ruiz, J. A.) 

Title: PRODUCTIVITY AND VISIBILITY OF CUBAN NEUROSCIENTISTS: BIBLIOMETRIC 
STUDY OF THE PERIOD 2001-2005 

Source: REVISTA DE NEUROLOGIA, 47 (7): 355-360 OCT 1 2008 

Language: Spanish 

Document Type: Article 

Author Keywords: Bibliometric indicators; Cuba; Impact; Neurosciences; 
Scientific productivity 
Keywords Plus: REVISTA-DE-NEUROLOGIA; SUCCESSIVE H-INDEXES; SCIENTIFIC-
RESEARCH; JOURNALS; SCIENCE; SPAIN; WEB 
Abstract: Introduction. Neurosciences hate an important place inside the 
scientific development of Ibero American countries, and particularly in 
Cuba. The objective of the current work is to analyze the productivity and 
visibility of Cuban neuroscientists ill the period 2001-2005, and the 
value of H index as evaluation tool. Materials and methods. Web of Science 
and Scopus were the databases used as information sources. The 24 Cuban 
neuroscientists in Web of Science were identified, and their scientific 
production in Scopus (vas retrieved. For each author; in each database, 
the following indicators were calculated: total number of published 
authors, total number of cited articles, proportion of cited articles, 
total number of citations received, average of citations received by 
article, and H index. Results. Some variations in the calculated 
indicators were observed in Scopus with respect to Web of Science. The 
wide coverage of this database exerted influence oil the increment of. 
scientist's productivity, as well as oil the increment of H index values. 
Conclusions. The possible incorporation of citation analysis, as well as 
other indicators derived, hi the processes of evaluation card analysis of 
the scientific activity was considered, in order to evaluate the advances 
in the Neurosciences field. [REV NEUROL 2008: 47: 355-60] 

Addresses: [Dorta-Contreras, A. J.] Univ La Habana, Lab Cent Liquido 
Cefalorraquideo, Fac Ciencias Med Dr Miguel Enriquez, Havana, Cuba; [Marti-
Lahera, Y.] Univ La Habana, Dept Bibliotecnol & Ciencia Informac, Fac 
Comunicac, Havana, Cuba; [Arencibia-Jorge, R.; Araujo-Ruiz, J. A.] Univ La 
Habana, Ctr Nacl Invest Cient, Red Estudios Cienciometr Educ Super, 
Havana, Cuba 

Reprint Address: Dorta-Contreras, AJ, Univ La Habana, Lab Cent Liquido 
Cefalorraquideo, Fac Ciencias Med Dr Miguel Enriquez, Apartado 10049,CP 
11000, Havana, Cuba. 

E-mail Address: adorta at infomed.sld.cu 

Cited Reference Count: 25 

Times Cited: 0 

Publisher: REVISTA DE NEUROLOGIA 

Publisher Address: C/O CESAR VIGUERA, EDITOR, APDO 94121, 08080 BARCELONA, 
SPAIN 

ISSN: 0210-0010 

29-char Source Abbrev.: REV NEUROLOGIA 

ISO Source Abbrev.: Rev. Neurologia 

Source Item Page Count: 6 

Subject Category: Clinical Neurology 

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