PRODUCCIÓN CIENTÍFICA DE LA REVISTA ELECTRÓNICA DE BIOMEDICINA. ESTUDIO BIBLIOMÉTRICO 2003-2012.

To characterize the scientific profile of the Electronic Journal of Biomedicine between 2003 and 2012. Method. Bibliometric descriptive study. Authors reviewed all published articles to describe the Journal profiles in term of number of authors, gender, country, type of publication, institution, number of comments made to the article, language and the existence of collaboration. The publication rate for 10,000 doctors and 100,000 inhabitants were estimated. Results. From 2003 to 2012, 305 articles to 1081 authors came from 25 countries were published. The highest number of publications was from Spain (108; 35.4%), followed by Cuba (56; 18.4%) and Argentina (50; 16.4%), the same countries that published throughout the years. The language used was the Spanish (161; 52.8%), followed by English (87; 28.5%). The originals articles were the most frequent type of article (107; 35.1%), followed by letters to the editor (54; 17.7%), clinical cases(44; 14.4%), reviews (37; 12.1%) and editorials pieces (36; 11.8%). A total of 90 institutions have published at least one article, 24(26.7%) reported three or more items, 18(20.0%) two and 48(53.3%) one. The General Yague Hospital (Burgos, Spain) showed the largest number of publications (45; 14.7%). The highest rates of physicians per 10,000 publications came from Cuba (7.31), Spain (6.20) and Argentina (4.59). These same countries received the highest rates of publications per million inhabitants Cuba (5.0), Spain (2.3) and Argentina (1.2) Conclusions. This study allowed, for the first time ever, the characterization of publication profile of the Electronic Journal of Biomedicine showing its multilingual, international and, interdisciplinary character