Evaluation of the Scientific Production in Portuguese Medical Schools

1. Evaluation of the Scientific Production in Portuguese Medical Schools 2006/2007 Class 5

2. Introduction • Scientifical and technological dynamics understanding; interest for scientific production quantitative indicators helps • Political engeneering; • Decision making on this area. increases number of articles published in scientifical journals Quantitative scientific production measured by SANTOS,Raimundo - Revista Digital de Biblioteconomia e Ciência da Informação, Campinas, v. 1, n. 1, p. 22-38, jul./dez. 2003 – ISSN: 1678-765X

3. Scientific production has been increasing in the last years: Graph - Annual evolution of the portuguese scientific publications´ number on Science Citation Index (red line-totals; blue line_ with foreign’s co-authorship; space between the two lines- without foreign’s co-authorship). Source: ISI – Web of Knowledge

4. Indexed journals ISI web of Science ALLOW TO ALLOWS ACCESS TO • title • report investigation results • author • journal´s impact factor • Citation data • look up for bibliographic information COIMBRA JR., Carlos E. A. Scientific production in public health and the international literature bases. Cad. Saúde Pública. 1999, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 883-888. http://scientific.thomson.com/free/essays/selectionofmaterial/journalselection/

5. EVALUATING JOURNALS Many factors are taken into account: Qualitative Quantitative journal's basic publishing standards • editorial content Interrelated • authorship’s internacional diversity • citation data All factors determine strengths and weaknesses of the journal

6. Internacional scope and diffusing of academic journals bibliometric product more used fundamental indicator IMPACT FACTOR It’s use became widespread J. M. CAMPANARIO, L. GONZÁLEZ: Journal self-citations -Scientometrics 69 (2006)

7. Aims Develop an objective methodology for scientifical articles In order to make it: Selection Research REPRODUCTIBLE • -Author’s position; • -Number; • Citation´s Number; • Impact factor; • Journals. LISBON compare COIMBRA

8. Methods Two medical schools Reasons: the oldest universities and the ones which have simultaneously hospital and faculty. FMUC FMUL Data base: ISI web of knowledge • Gives access to the leader of database of quote (Web ofScience); • gathers the searched results promoting its analysis (Analyze tool); • available index, records, virtual documents and electronic journals. http://scientific.thomson.com/pt/produtos/WoK/wok/

9. Flowchart

10. FINAL QUERY :Lisboa* or Lisbon* 2005 * - Coimbra http://scientific.thomson.com/pt/produtos/WoK/wok/

11. Exclusion criterias: • - Articles not published in faculties: • - Articles with none contribution of faculty members; • Inclusion criterias: • - Articles with contribution of faculty members; - Articles from:

12. Information from the articles:- Author author; Other authors; Institution 1st author; Author’s position; 1st author’s filiation 1 and 2; Institution’s 1st author filiation; Author’s total number. - Journal Citation´s number  specific for the article; Index; Publication review or journal; Page; Volume;

13. Data base creation Data Basecreation SPSS Lables • Statistical calculations; Statistical Analysis - Results interpretation and presentation Graphs

14. Coimbra’s results Filiation Table 1 – Coimbra’s1st Author’s Institution Filiation Table 2 – Coimbra’s 1st Author’s Institution Filiation

15. Graph 1 – Coimbra’s 1st Author’s Institution Filiation

16. Table 3 – Coimbra’s 1st Author’s first filiation Table 4 – Coimbra’s 1st Author’s first filiation

17. Graph 2 – Coimbra’s 1st Author’s first filiation

18. Filiation2 Statistics Filiation2 Table 5 – Coimbra’s 1st Author’s second filiation Table 6 – Coimbra’s 1st Author’s second filiation

19. Graph 3 – Coimbra’s 1st Author’s second filiation

20. Table 7 – Coimbra’s impact factor Table 8 – Coimbra’s impact factor

21. Graph 4 –Coimbra’s journal impact factor

22. Table 9 – Coimbra’s article citation´s number Table 10 – Coimbra’s article citation´s number

23. Graph 5 – Coimbra’s article citation´s number

24. Table 11 – Coimbra’s relative position of Institution Author

25. Lisbon’s results Filiation Statistics Filiation Table 12 – Lisbon’s 1st Author’s Institution Filiation Table 13 – Lisbon’s 1st Author’s Institution Filiation

26. Graph 6 – Lisbon’s 1st Author’s Institution Filiation

27. Filiation1 Statistics Filiation1 Table 14 – Lisbon’s 1st Author’s first filiation Table 15 – Lisbon’s 1st Author’s first filiation

28. Graph 7 – Lisbon’s 1st Author’s first filiation

29. Filiation2 Statistics Filiation2 Table 16 – Lisbon’s 1st Author’s second filiation Table 17 – Lisbon’s 1st Author’s second filiation

30. Graph 8 – Lisbon’s 1st Author’s second filiation

31. Table 18 - Impact factor Table 19 – Impact factor

32. Graph 9 – Journal impact factor

33. Table 20 – Article citation´s number Table 21 – Article citation´s number

34. Graph 10 – Article citation´s number

35. Table 22 – Relative position of Institution Author

36. Discussion and conclusion Coimbra:34 Lisboa:68 Articles which 1st author belongs to faculty Coimbra:97 Number of articles Lisboa:108

37. Coimbra: 3.02 Impact factor medium Lisboa: 3.35 Coimbra:274.5 Impact factor sum up Lisboa:327.8 Coimbra:408 Citations number sum up Lisboa:356

38. References SANTOS,Raimundo - Revista Digital de Biblioteconomia e Ciência da Informação, Campinas, v. 1, n. 1, p. 22-38, jul./dez. 2003 – ISSN: 1678-765X COIMBRA JR., Carlos E. A. Scientific production in public health and the international literature bases. Cad. Saúde Pública. 1999, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 883-888. http://scientific.thomson.com/free/essays/selectionofmaterial/journalselection/ J. M. CAMPANARIO, L. GONZÁLEZ: Journal self-citations -Scientometrics 69 (2006) http://scientific.thomson.com/pt/produtos/WoK/wok/