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

Introduction: COVID-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. Objective: To characterize the output of original scientific artic...

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Autores principales:	Ibraín Enrique Corrales-Reyes, Frank Hernández-García, Adrián Alejandro Vitón-Castillo, Christian R. Mejia
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Publicado:	Elsevier 2021
Materias:	COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 Scientometrics Bibliometrics Cuba Science (General) Q1-390 Social sciences (General) H1-99
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:f6ec817725fa46d0af0325712ac849e12021-12-02T05:02:18ZVisibility, collaboration and impact of the Cuban scientific output on COVID-19 in Scopus2405-844010.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e08258https://doaj.org/article/f6ec817725fa46d0af0325712ac849e12021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844021023616https://doaj.org/toc/2405-8440Introduction: COVID-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. Objective: To 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 methods: A 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. Results: Cuba 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. Conclusions: The 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.Ibraín Enrique Corrales-ReyesFrank Hernández-GarcíaAdrián Alejandro Vitón-CastilloChristian R. MejiaElsevierarticleCOVID-19SARS-CoV-2ScientometricsBibliometricsCubaScience (General)Q1-390Social sciences (General)H1-99ENHeliyon, Vol 7, Iss 11, Pp e08258- (2021)
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topic	COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 Scientometrics Bibliometrics Cuba Science (General) Q1-390 Social sciences (General) H1-99
spellingShingle	COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 Scientometrics Bibliometrics Cuba Science (General) Q1-390 Social sciences (General) H1-99 Ibraín Enrique Corrales-Reyes Frank Hernández-García Adrián Alejandro Vitón-Castillo Christian R. Mejia Visibility, collaboration and impact of the Cuban scientific output on COVID-19 in Scopus
description	Introduction: COVID-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. Objective: To 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 methods: A 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. Results: Cuba 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. Conclusions: The 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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author	Ibraín Enrique Corrales-Reyes Frank Hernández-García Adrián Alejandro Vitón-Castillo Christian R. Mejia
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title	Visibility, collaboration and impact of the Cuban scientific output on COVID-19 in Scopus
title_short	Visibility, collaboration and impact of the Cuban scientific output on COVID-19 in Scopus
title_full	Visibility, collaboration and impact of the Cuban scientific output on COVID-19 in Scopus
title_fullStr	Visibility, collaboration and impact of the Cuban scientific output on COVID-19 in Scopus
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Visibility, collaboration and impact of the Cuban scientific output on COVID-19 in Scopus

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