Carlos Vílchez-Román

CENTRUM PUCP

Background: It is possible that there is a relationship between reading newspapers and magazines, watching televisión and ¡istening to the radio and unwanted pregnancies. Aim: To assess the relationship between the access to printed and audiovisual information resources and unwanted pregnancy in Peruvian women. Material and methods: A sample of 5,0...

Objetivo: identificar el porcentaje de sujetos con un adecuado conocimiento sobre la salud y determinar las variables demográficas que predicen un apropiado conocimiento de la misma. Metodología: estudio de cohorte transversal en el que se aplicó la prueba SAHLSA-50 en una muestra de 49 mujeres en edad fértil, usuarias del servicio ginecológico de...

To identify sex differences in the use patterns of internet and analyze the undergraduate students' opinions about their performance using internet tools, the author used an opinion survey with a sample of 101 undergraduate students (44 male and 57 females) enrolled in the Librarianship and Information Science School from a Peruvian university. To...

Objetive: To know the undergraduate students' opinions related to the sexually explicit materials. The author used an opinion survey with a sample of 842 students from three Peruvian universities. Results: 1) Women support pornography censorship laws while men tend to support regulations oriented to protect children (p.05). 2) The hypothesis resear...

It presents the results of quality test applied to a library service at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM) under the methodology LibQUAL + in a sample comprised of users of five faculties. The study offers the end a set of recommendations and suggestions for improving service.

Background In this study, we addressed the gap between health research and policymaking in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), focusing on health education/health literacy. Despite growing research, translating findings into effective policies needs to be improved. We explored the factors that make research on health education and health literac...

(1) Background: Health literacy (HL) debates have increased significantly in the last two decades. HL concepts/themes and models have achieved substantial development in the US and Europe. Although there have been some efforts to develop HL in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), these seem to be few and scattered. This paper reviews and discusse...

Brazil is Latin America’s largest country and has a strong economy, but it is also characterised by many inequalities. These are very conspicuous in the health sector, particularly in health education, which is expected to modernise according to the planetary health (PH) perspective. This paper describes the health education scenario in Brazil and...

This study analyzes the factors that affect the decision of women high school students to pursue a science and technology (ST) career in Peru. The study specifically analyzes the women high school students’ perception of ST careers and women in the ST field; the influence of people outside of the school (family, friends, others) with regard to thei...

This study aims to validate a data collection tool’s psychometric properties to explore whether business management research’s relevance is a high-order construct made up of its perceived interest and perceived relevance. The authors conducted a confirmatory factor analysis to validate a two-factor scale. The sample was composed of 148 MBA students...

This study aims to validate an empirical model, at document level, that explains the interaction among content, usage, and citation within open access publications. The PLoS site was the information source for this study. Using an R API (Application Programming Interface) for PLoS ONE, 776,465 records were downloaded on August 24, 2018. Those recor...

The paper analyses the literature related to the underrepresentation of women in the scientific field to identify the factors that affect this underrepresentation worldwide. This literature review covers 470 papers—published in journals with the highest impact factor from 1985 to 2018—that address the factors that influence the access, participatio...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse how using bibliometrics and information visualization can provide a “picture at glance” from which decision-makers can structure processes, thus organizing outputs/outcomes from inception. Design/methodology/approach This study carried out a bibliometric-oriented review on studies on higher education...

Most of the altmetric research in developing countries is descriptive and has not tested models exploring relationships among article-level factors. Therefore, there is a knowledge gap on this issue. The research question for this study was the following: Social dimension is the factor that activates the usage and citation of Open Access publicatio...

One of the challenges faced by research managers is to identify the factors associated with the scientific production of a university, because in this they can allocate resources to expand the frontiers of academic knowledge. In this study we present a model of factors associated with the scientific production indexed in Scopus of a Peruvian public...

p>La informalidad en la gestión del personal es un problema extendido en las pequeñas y microempresas, afectando los salarios de los trabajadores. Por ello, el objetivo del estudio fue validar un modelo que explica la actitud hacia la regulación laboral. Las hipótesis fueron: a) la capacitación profesional recibida media la relación entre nivel edu...

More than 1.5 million academic documents are published each year, and this trend shows an incremental tendency for the following years. One of the main challenges for the academic community is how to organize this huge volume of documentation to have a sense of the knowledge frontier. In this study we applied Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) techn...

In the present investigation the entrepreneurial intention among the university students of the careers of administrative sciences and engineering of Peru was determined; likewise, the influence of the university ecosystem on the social entrepreneurial intention, the self-efficacy of the students, the entrepreneurial orientation and the positive pe...

La investigación ha permitido analizar los diferentes factores (individuales, familiares, educativos, sociales y económicos-laborales) que influyen con el ingreso, participación y desarrollo de las mujeres en carreras relacionadas con la ciencia, tecnología e innovación (CTI). La fase cualitativa se basó en un estudio fenomenológico para examinar l...

Objective To determine the level of stability or change in topic areas published by public health journals in Latin America and the Caribbean, using keywords and co-word analysis, in order to support evidence-based research planning. Methods Keywords were extracted from papers indexed in Scopus® that were published by the Revista de Salud Pública...

La Ciencia, la Tecnología y la Innovación [CTI] son elementos necesarios para el progreso social y económico (Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura, 2012); sin embargo, la historia nos muestra la presencia de una división del trabajo marcado por factores sociales y de género (Banco Interamericano de Desa...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyze the structural model of citations received in Scopus, taking into account the altmetric activity registered by a commercial provider. Design/methodology/approach: DOIs of Peruvian universities’ publications indexed in Scopus (1996-2016) were extracted using the Export records feature (n = 6,386). Onl...

Background: Studies on bibliometrics and informetrics training have focused on teachers and curricular experts' opinion, only a few studies have examined undergraduate students and practitioners' perceptions. Objective: To understand how li-brarianship students and professionals perceive the bibliometrics and informetrics training delivered to them...

The objective of this article is: a) to identify Peruvian researchers with high, medium and low impact factor according to Web of Science and Scopus databases; b) to identify the bibliometric factor with the highest influence on h-index of Peruvian researchers; c) to compare h-index between Web of Science and Scopus, at an individual and institutio...

Objective: the objectives were to identify the percentage of subjects having appropriate health literacy and determine the demographic variables predicting appropriate health literacy in females. Methodology: this was a cross-sectional study in which the short assessment of health literacy for Spanish adults (SAHLSA-50) test was given to a sample o...

It is possible that there is a relationship between reading newspapers and magazines, watching television and inverted exclamation listening to the radio and unwanted pregnancies. To assess the relationship between the access to printed and audiovisual information resources and unwanted pregnancy in Peruvian women. A sample of 5,071 women, aged bet...

Objetivo: Determinar la relación existente entre el uso de fuentes de información (impresas y audiovisuales) y el embarazo adolescente. Hipótesis: La lectura de diarios y revistas, así como el consumo de radio y televisión, se asocian con el embarazo en adolescentes peruanas. Métodos: A partir de la base de datos de la Encuesta Demográfica y de Sal...

Objective: To identify the relationship between information resources usage (print and audiovisuals) and pregnancy in adolescence. Hyphotesis: Magazines and newspapers reading, as well as TV and radio preference, are associated with pregnancy in Peruvian adolescents. Methods: Starting from the database of the Demographic and Health Family Survey (E...

The programs of information retrieval for developing countries were analyzed, as well as the evaluation techniques applied to the usability, and those applied to the human-computer interaction, making emphasis on the empirical tests. A description was made of the work style of a full text information retrieval system distributed as a free software...

The programs of information retrieval for developing countries were analyzed, as well as the evaluation techniques applied to the usability, and those applied to the human-computer interaction, making emphasis on the empirical tests. A description was made of the work style of a full text information retrieval system distributed as a free software...

HYPOTHESES: "The students of the classroom where the teacher set up citation quotas, in average, cites less non academic works than the students of the classroom where the teacher stressed on the diversity of information sources the students can use to develop their papers." METHODS: The bibliographic references of 80 monographic works of undergrad...

The book includes a brief historic description of the Library and Information Science (LIS) research development in the Latinamerican countries, including the two Peruvian universities with a LIS school: PUCP and UNMSM.

The book includes a discussion about the epistemological status of Librarianship.

The book is divided in five chapters. In the first the autor discuss the general framework of usability. In the next explain the advantages and limitations of the four well known methods to usability testing. The third chapter shows, step by step, the usabiliy testing planning and the forth describes the information collection process.

The research goals were: a) Identify the main attributes of the leisure-time activities of school students. b) Analyze the school students' perceptions of the reading as a leisure-time activity. The author used a self-report instrument with a sample of 325 school students of a private religious Peruvian high school. Using the multidimensional scali...

Se revisan algunos conceptos relacionados con la llamada "sociedad de la información" y luego se analizan varios indicadores que sustentan la creencia generalizada según la cual Internet ha alcanzado una difusión masiva dentro de la sociedad peruana. Al final el autor propone una reflexión crítica sobre este tema.

Identify the preferred activities and the time spent in them by adolescents. 2) Considering those leisure activities, to know the likes and dislikes of adolescents in terms of importance and time spent in those activities, and 3) Identify activities associated with leisure reading. A self-report instrument in a sample of 325 secondary students of a...

Reading of books and magazines, as a leisure activity of adolescents, is a topic with little research. People still think that leisure time isn't as important as time spent in productive and profit activities. Although, research on adolescent leisure time is necessary because adolescents express their real interests in these moments. The research g...

The authors review the different models related to the information skills development: Eisenberg & Berkowitz (1988), Herring (1996), Irving (1985), Kulthau (1982), and the Australian School Library Association (1997). Then both propose a media library users' education program, a necessary item to assure the information skills development in primary...

The author discuss the conclusions and recommendations of the research carried out.

Apresenta o resultado da avaliação da qualidade aplicado ao serviço de uma biblioteca na Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM) sob a metodologia LibQUAL+ numa mostra conformada por usuários de cinco faculdades. O estudo brinda ao final um conjunto de recomendações e sugestões para a melhora do serviço.--IMPORTANTE: Para ver este artigo a...

This study describes the scientific production of major Peruvian academic institutions and determine the web visibility of two Peruvian journals of Communication Research and Economics. For exploratory analysis, we consulted papers indexed by the Web of Science database, and to measure the web visibility, used the webometrics ranking methodology to...

En marzo de 2005, una propuesta de articulación de colaboración entre universidades públicas en Perú, puso a nuestra disposición un sistema de gestión de contenidos útil para darle soporte a la coordinación de la Red de Universidades Públicas para la Autoevaluación y Mejora Continua (REDUNIV´s). El proceso de apropiación de la herramienta, nos ha l...