16th International Scientific Congress CNIC'2015 National Center for Scientific Research Address:
Ave 25 y 158, Cubanacán, Playa. AP 6414, La Habana, Cuba. www: http://www.cnic.edu.cu/
50 th Anniversary, 1965 ‐ 2015 CIE-O-009
Student's Publication in Cuban Medical Journals 1995-2015
González Argote, Javier Dorta Contreras, Alberto Juan; Castillo González, William; Rodríguez Herrera, Diana; Bermúdez Mitrane, Diago Facultad de Ciencias Médicas Dr. Miguel Enríquez (UCM-H) Cuba
[email protected] Introduction: At present big interest assumes so much on a global scale like national to the formation of investigations skill development in medical sciences students, being emphasized like a need to increase the quality of the public health.Aim: To describe the scientific production of medical sciences students in Cuban journal.Materials and Methods:Bibliometric study. We analyzed the articles from 30 Cuban medical journals in the period from 1995 to February 2015 to determine the student contribution.Results and Discussion: A total of 17040 articles in Cuban medical journals, in 2,26 % was student contribution mostly like coauthors and original articles. The magazine with more articles was MediCiego (154 articles), and that there exist 9 magazines where there are no articles with student participation. There was not any article which authors belonged to two or more centers or different countries.Conclusions: It is a time to undertake the commitment to give to the students interested by the scientific investigation spaces of international quality expiring with the current requests that apply to the most prestigious magazines of the world. It is recommended to take measures at different levels to improve these numbers and to evaluate periodically its evolution, therefore it still remains great for doing, each one from its trench, for encouraging the publication from the pregrade in our universities.
Key words: bibliometrics, medical education,schools/medical students, universitary research, scientific
