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ArticleHeliyon2021

Visibility, collaboration and impact of the Cuban scientific output on COVID-19 in Scopus.

Ibraín Enrique Corrales-Reyes, Frank Hernández-García, Adrián Alejandro Vitón-Castillo, Christian R Mejia

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Article in Heliyon, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
3.8field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Ibraín Enrique Corrales-ReyesMaxillofacial Surgery Department, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes General University Hospital, Medical University of Granma. Granma, Cuba.
Frank Hernández-GarcíaProvincial Center for Diabetic Care and Education, Dr. Antonio Luaces Iraola Provincial General University Hospital, Dr. José Assef Yara Faculty of Medical Science, Medical University of Ciego de Ávila. Ciego de Ávila, Cuba.
Adrián Alejandro Vitón-CastilloDr. Ernesto Che Guevara de la Serna Faculty of Medical Sciences, Medical University of Pinar del Río. Pinar del Río, Cuba.
Christian R MejiaTranslational Medicine Research Center, Norbert Wiener University, Lima, Peru.
Universidad de Ciego de Ávila · CUUniversidad Norbert Wiener · PEUniversity of Granma · CUUniversity of Pinar del Río · CU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionCOVID-19 is a disease with worldwide impact that has fully caught attention of researchers. The Cuban scientific output, after one year of confronting this pandemic, has not been studied from a bibliometric perspective.

objectiveTo characterize the output of original scientific articles and review articles on COVID-19 published by Cuban authors in the journals included in the Scopus bibliographic database, the collaborations in these publications and their impact, according to the citation of the research in the world literature. MATERIALS AND

methodsA cross-sectional, descriptive and observational study was performed, using a bibliometric approach. A search strategy was used to retrieve articles on the subject and bibliometric indicators of output, visibility, leadership, collaboration and impact were studied.

resultsCuba contributed 2.5% of the Latin American output and 0.2% of the world output. Of the national scientific output (133 articles, 111 original and 22 reviews), 84.2% were authored by a Cuban corresponding author (Cuban leadership). However, the majority (n = 20; 71.4%) of articles with international collaboration (n = 28; 21.1%) had foreign corresponding authors. Of the total, 33.8% (n = 45) corresponded to articles without collaboration. Only 13.5% of the articles (n = 18) were published in journals with high visibility (Q1). Of all the output, 68.4% (n = 91) was in Cuban journals. The output in English represented 29.3% (n = 39) and achieved greater impact than the articles in Spanish in terms of citations. As the visibility of the journals increased according to the quartiles where they are, the percentage of articles published in English and cited articles increased too, but Cuban scientific leadership decreased.

conclusionsThe greater the leadership in Cuban research, the lower its impact, and the lower the indexes of international collaboration. Cuban researchers are not yet able to systematically generate research that has a significant impact on the international scientific community.

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BibliometricsCOVID-19CubaSARS-CoV-2Scientometrics

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PMID34805561
PMCPMC8586785
OpenAlexW3211319901

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