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Significant Mexican research in the health sciences: A bibliometric analysis

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In the 1970s Mexico started to consolidate its S&T system by training human resources and actively preventing brain drain, mainly by motivating researchers through economic incentives. Considering Bradford"s Law, an analysis of significant Mexican research in the health sciences, i.e., papers published in journals with a high-impact factor which grant a degree of credibility and importance was carried out. Significant papers produced in Mexico show a measure of the country"s productivity, and these papers" citations measure the country"s international impact.

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  1. Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, National University of Mexico Ciudad Universitaria, 04510, Mexico City

    Judith Licea De Arenas

  2. Institute of Economics Research, National University of Mexico, Mexico City

    Heriberta Castańos-Lomnitz

  3. London Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University College London, Australia

    Judith Arenas Licea

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Licea De Arenas, J., Castańos-Lomnitz, H. & Arenas Licea, J. Significant Mexican research in the health sciences: A bibliometric analysis. Scientometrics 53, 39–48 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1014879803333

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