Cuban scientific production about medicinal plants and natural products from PlantMedCUBA database, 1967-2010

Revista Cubana de Plantas Medicinales

Elizagaray Fernández, Beatriz¹  Castro Armas, Ricardo¹ 

[1] centro de Información Farmacéutica, La Habana, Cuba

关键词: medicinal plants;    natural products;    scientific production;    bibliometry;    database;   

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学科分类：药理学

来源: Editorial Ciencias Medicas

【 摘 要 】

Introduction: medicinal plants have an important function as health source and review an unquestionable interest for scientific communities and society in general. The scientific field of this analysis made by bibliometric techniques is subjected to the sector of pharmaceutical sciences, medicinal plants and natural products. Objective: to describe the Cuban scientific production about medicinal plants and natural products from PlantMedCUBA database during the period 1967-2010. Methods: methods of metric information studies (publication analysis) for productivity count were applied in order to characterize, at the macro level, the scientific production about medicinal plants and natural products recorded in PlantMedCUBA database, during the period 1967-2010. Results: from the implementation of bibliometric indicators, it resulted that: the year 2002 had the highest productivity, with 98 contributions; the most productive province was Havana City Province (Havana Province at present), with 175 works; the most prominent sectors were Science and Technology (381), Education (215), and Public Health (120); the outstanding institution is the Center for Research and Drug Development, with 275 articles. The authorship productivity indicator, according to Lotka´s Law, reported a small group of great producers of 8 authors as well as a total of 134 authors in the group of medium producers and 232 in the third group of small producers. Similarly, the most representative authors were identified. Multiple authorship (721 articles), is expressed by a positive adjustment on single authorship (50). In relation to magazines, the Cuban Magazine on Medicinal Plants (368) and The Cuban Magazine on Pharmacy (357) are significantly relevant. The last indicator highlights the most used

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