Josmel Pacheco-Mendoza

Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola · Vicerectorado de Investigación

The objective of this scientometric study was to assess the global trends and characteristics of published occupational health research from 2016 to 2020. The SciVal tool (Elsevier) was used to perform the corresponding bibliometric analyses such as the Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI), Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP), CiteScore, and...

The analysis of scientometric indicators allows measuring the academic and research activity performance of universities. To date, there are no scientific works that explain the use of metric analysis to study the collections of articles of Carlos Rafael Rodríguez University of Cienfuegos (UCf) that are stored in databases of indexed journals. This...

Objective: To evaluate Peruvian scientific publications in dentistry according to sex disparity (2011-2020). Methods: This was a retrospective bibliometric study. The unit of analysis was made up of Peruvian dentistry publications indexed in the Scopus database during the last 10 years. Records with metadata (410) corresponding to the period 201...

Objective: To perform a bibliometric analysis of the scientific research on the development of vaccines against dental caries. Methods: An extraction of the scientific production published on the development of vaccines against dental caries between 2011 and 2020 was carried out from the Scopus database. Microsoft Excel was used for the elaborat...

Objective: To evaluate the bibliometric profile of the national academic production of public and private medical schools in Scopus after the publication of a new university law (2015-2020). Methods: A descriptive bibliometric study was conducted. The secondary data corresponding to the 42 Peruvian medical schools that had scientific publication...

A bibliometric study was conducted to describe the scientific production of Instituto Nacional de Salud del Niño-Breña (INSNBreña) in Peru from 2010 to 2019 in the Scopus database (Scopus ID: 60,071,245). In the study period, 209 publications were registered (3,165 citations; 15.1 citations/publication), with an increasing trend from 18 to 30 publi...

Objective: To evaluate the scientometrics characteristics of the scientific production on the treatment of brain tumors with gamma knife radiosurgery in Scopus. Methods: The Scopus database (Elsevier) was used to collect all relevant studies for this bibliometric analysis. Data was obtained as a .csv file; it was downloaded from Scopus and was e...

The triglyceride/high-density cholesterol-lipoprotein (TG/HDL-c) is a biomarker of cardiovascular events and mortality. In hemodialysis patients, the evidence is controversial. A systematic review was carried out in the Medline, Scopus, Embase, Web of Science, and Pubmed databases to identify the relevant cohort studies on cardiovascular events and...

Background: Antimicrobial resistance is a serious public health problem that has become a global threat. Special attention should be given to polymyxins (polymyxin B and colistin) which, since their reintroduction into clinical practice, are considered “last resort” drugs. The objective of this study is to perform a bibliometric analysis of scienti...

Spirulina is a cyanobacterium rich in proteins, polyunsaturated fatty acids, and bioactive compounds, such as C-phycocyanin, which has anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties and possible lipid and glucose metabolism effects. This systematic review aimed to analyze the effects of spirulina on lipid profile, glucose metabolism, and anti-inflamm...

With the objective of analyzing the scientific contribution of measles publications and graphing the collaboration networks between countries during the last 20 years. A bibliometric study was conducted between 1999 and 2018 of journals indexed in Scopus. Annual production data were analyzed and a co-occurrence analysis of production and collaborat...

Introduction: Dementia is a chronic disease with a variable prevalence throughout the world; however, this could be higher at high-altitude populations. We aimed to summarize the prevalence of cognitive impairment and dementia in older adults living at high altitude. Methods: We searched in PubMed, Medline, Scopus, Web of Science, and Embase and...

Purpose This work studied the influence of creativity-related traits in university professors’ scientific productivity. Design/methodology/approach A survey, applied to 120 university professors, included closed-ended questions for participants to rate 33 items derived from the specialized literature and classified into five dimensions (novelty; f...

Objective. To perform a bibliometric analysis of the national scholarly output of all dental schools in Peru in Scopus through a retrospective study after the promulgation of the Peruvian University Law 30220 in 2014. Methods. This was a descriptive, comparative, retrospective, and cross-sectional study. A search of the Scopus database was performe...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to analyze to what extent the strategic actions implemented by the libraries contribute to the containment of the pandemic caused by COVID-19, without compromising the quality of library services for their learning communities. Design/methodology/approach The research has a mixed methodology: qualitative and qu...

We aimed to synthesize the evidence from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that determined the efficacy of adding omega-3 supplementation to the continuous sertraline therapy in adults with depression. Meta-analyses were performed using random effects. We used the Revised Cochrane risk of bias tool for randomized trials version 2.0. to assess the...

Aim and Method To determine the effect on decisional-related and clinical outcomes of decision aids for depression treatment in adults in randomised clinical trials. In January 2019, a systematic search was conducted in five databases. Study selection and data extraction were performed in duplicate. Meta-analyses were performed, and standardised an...

Socioeconomic and cultural factors coupled with an inability to control many endemic and emerging diseases have resulted in a growing incidence of epilepsy cases in Latin America. This study aimed to analyze and describe scientific research output trends in epilepsy research for the period 1989-2018. Publications were extracted from Scopus indexed...

Introduction: Patients with Huntington-Like disorders (HLD) comprise a variety of allelic disorders sharing a Huntington phenotype. The hexanucleotide repeat expansion of the C9orf72 gene could explain part of the HLD etiology. We aimed to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis looking for the frequency of the hexanucleotide repeat expansion...

Objective To analyse the scientific production and collaboration networks on publications in systemic lupus erythematosus in Latin America. Materials and methods Bibliometric study between 1982 and 2018 of journals indexed in Scopus. Data were analysed by annual production and a co-occurrence analysis of the collaboration between countries with VO...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report and to regulate the users’ documentary necessities of six Mexican universities involved, in a cooperative manner and during the period of confinement by SARS-CoV-2, through the Document Delivery Service (DDS). Design/methodology/approach A diagnostic was conducted within the participating institutions...

Background: Antimicrobial resistance is a serious public health problem that has become a global threat. Special attention should be given to polymyxins (polymyxin B and colistin) which, since their reintroduction into clinical practice, are considered "last resort" drugs. The objective of this study is to perform a bibliometric analysis of scienti...

Aim: To identify the differences between Cuban scientific research published in highly visible journals and the rest of the national dental scientific output. Materials and Methods: A bibliometric analysis was conducted using 1995-2017 data from the Scopus database. The following search strategy was used: country (Cuba), subject area (dentistry), p...

Resumen Objetivo Analizar la producción científica y redes de colaboración a partir de las publicaciones sobre lupus eritematoso sistémico en Latinoamérica. Materiales y métodos Estudio bibliométrico de revistas publicadas entre los años 1982 y 2018 e indizadas en Scopus. Se analizaron datos por producción anual y se representó gráficamente, medi...

Introduction Drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS) syndrome is an adverse and severe skin reaction due to patients’ susceptibility to medications, including phenytoin. The objective was to explore the characteristics of patients with DRESS secondary to phenytoin through a systematic review. Methods We describe a case of DRE...

Background: Depression is considered a mental health-related disability that affects approximately 350 million people worldwide. On the other hand, it is estimated that 15% of the world's population lives with some form of disability, and this scenario is currently riddled with the global burden of mental disorders, non-communicable diseases and o...

Lymphangioma is a rare and understudied pathology that is usually detected in the first decade of life, and its appearance in adults is rare. This report details a 51-year-old man with morbid obesity who presented, for the last eight months, multiple asymmetric tumor lesions with extension to the scrotal region. The diagnosis of circumscribed lymph...

In this article, we review the process behind the establishment of the Bibliometrics Research Unit at the San Ignacio de Loyola University (Peru), as a specialized unit that has aided in enhancing its university’s scientific production and research practices. The Unit’s functions and its role as a dynamic engine for scientific production are also p...

Background and aims: Hypertension and diabetes are global health problems with an incidence that is rapidly increasing worldwide. Depression is the most frequent mental health co-morbidity and is considered an important risk factor for the development of both diseases. This study aimed to determine the prevalence and factors associated with depres...

Background The problem of access to medical information, particularly in low-income countries, has been under discussion for many years. Although a number of developments have occurred in the last decade (e.g., the open access (OA) movement and the website Sci-Hub), everyone agrees that these difficulties still persist very widely, mainly due to th...

Objective: To evaluate the association between dysnatremias or dyschloremias and mortality during hospitalization in patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) or chronic kidney disease (CKD) undergoing acute hemodialysis. Methods: We carried out a retrospective cohort study on adult patients undergoing acute hemodialysis with AKI or CKD diagnosis...

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The new university law 30220 of 2014 introduced the mandatory institutional licensing of all Peruvian universities by the National Superintendence of Higher University Education (SUNEDU, in Spanish). The first undergraduate program to go through this process will be medicine. The licensing of medical programs is necessary to ensure that the conditi...

INTRODUCTION The steadily increasing prevalence of diabetes globally has captured researchers’ attention. Cuban production of scientific articles on diabetes has not been studied from a bibliometric perspective. OBJECTIVE Characterize the production and impact of research and review articles on diabetes by Cuban authors in journals listed in the Sc...

The new university law 30220 of 2014 introduced the mandatory institutional licensing of all Peruvian universities by the National Superintendence of Higher University Education (SUNEDU, in Spanish). The first undergraduate program to go through this process will be medicine. The licensing of medical programs is necessary to ensure that the conditi...

The patent registration is considered one of the industrial and scientific development indexes of countries, once used to measure the capacity of this activity in the transformation of knowledge into products, processes or technological innovation. In view of the whole scientific, technological and innovation contexts activities in Peru, we ask: ho...

The pauci-immune crescentic glomerulonephritis (PICGN) is generally associated with small-vessel vasculitis with a few reported cases associated with other autoimmune diseases such as Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE). We present the case of a female 34-year-old patient with acute kidney injury symptoms with indication for renal replacement therap...

Peer review of research articles is a core part of our scholarly communication system. In spite of its importance, the status and purpose of peer review is often contested. What is its role in our modern digital research and communications infrastructure? Does it perform to the high standards with which it is generally regarded? Studies of peer rev...

This article analyzes level of metadata quality (MQ ratio) and level of academic visibility in Google Scholar (IGS ratio) associated with coverage of four types of documents (theses, articles, books, and conferences) in repositories of Peruvian universities. This research is a cross-sectional descriptive and correlational study with intentional non...

Objectives: To determine the scientific production of Research Vice-chancellors at Peruvian universities that have medical schools, as well as their academic degrees as an indirect way to evaluate their suitability for the position they hold. Methods: We searched all Peruvian universities that register medical schools. Of these, the scientific p...

El texto presenta, por primera vez, un panorama situacional de las revistas científicas peruanas vigentes. A partir de los registros de LATINDEX y luego de un proceso de depuración, se identificaron 138 publicaciones y se caracterizaron sobre la base de cinco variables: procedencia geográfica, organización editora, periodicidad de publicación, form...

Peer review of research articles is a core part of our scholarly communication system. In spite of its importance, the status and purpose of peer review is often contested. What is its role in our modern digital research and communications infrastructure? Does it perform to the high standards with which it is generally regarded? Studies of peer rev...

This article discusses the information dimension of marketing from a technical, theoretical and behavioral perspective. It also delves into the relationship between marketing and the library and information science (LIS). It is an exploratory and descriptive study and its qualitative approaches are carried out through classic documentary analysis....

This non-systematic bibliographic review examines the published Peruvian medical literature on arterial hypertension (HTN) as of December 2016. The results were divided into three thematic areas: self-knowledge, adherence to treatment, and control. We identified 197 articles, although only 15 were used for the analysis. Despite improvement in recen...

Diagnóstico tardío de la poliquistosis renal autosómica dominante en una población peruana

Leímos el artículo de Castro-Rodríguez, et al.1, que caracteriza la producción científica en odontología de 3 revistas peruanas para el periodo 2005-2014. Los autores analizan la productividad retrospectiva de la revista a partir del conteo crudo de «la cantidad de publicaciones científicas durante un año», lo que supone una sumatoria del total de...

Introduction: Patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) in developing countries are described in a profile of young age, with less comorbidities, with unifactorial, and with a lower mortality compared to patients in developed countries. Objective: To assess mortality in patients with acute kidney injury undergoing hemodialysis (HD) and its associate...

Valdés Balbín R, Fundora- Mirabal JA, Cárdenas-de-Baños L, Bencomo-Díaz D, González-Losada C, Pacheco Mendoza J, Dorta-Contreras AJ,. La Revista Habanera de Ciencias Médicas: una mirada desde la Cienciometría. Revista Habanera de Ciencias Médicas [revista en Internet]. 2017 [citado 2017 Feb 10]; 16(1): 38-56 [aprox. 19 p.]. Disponible en: http://ww...

Objective: to describe the scientific production related to diabetes in Peru between 1996 and 2015. Methods: Bibliometric study. Scientific papers on diabetes published between 1996 and 2015 were identified by authors with Peruvian affiliation in the Web of Science Core Collection (WoS) and Scopus databases. The variables of interest were extracted...

Introduction: In order to guarantee an adequate editorial process, it is necessary a team work of publishers, director and editorial committee, whose main purpose is to publish papers with an adequate scientific and methodological accuracy, which need a great effort to maintain quality, guarantee scientific validity and to protect potential readers...

The aim of this study was to geospatially explore the occurrence rates of car accidents involving pedestrians in Cercado de Lima (Lima District), Peru. Car accidents involving pedestrians recorded in the 2015 National Police Station Census of the National Statistics and Information Institute were described and georeferenced. Subsequently, a Kernel...

La aparición de las métricas alternativas (altmetrics) como vía rápida para la medición del impacto de la producción científica de las ciencias sociales frente a los métodos de tradicionales de la Bibliometría, y la expansión del movimiento del Open Access (OA) como ruta alterna a los canales tradicionales comerciales de comunicación científica, co...

INTRODUCCIÓN Y OBJETIVO: España se sitúa dentro de los países con mayor producción científica en investigación en VIH/SIDA a nivel Europeo y mundial. Sin embargo, ningún estudio ha mostrado las capacidades científicas de las instituciones andaluzas para producir investigación de excelencia a nivel internacional en esta disciplina. Nuestro objetivo...

El Acceso Abierto (OA) se ha consolidado como un modelo alternativo de comunicación científica, que promueve la eliminación de las barreras económicas, tecnológicas y legales que limitan el acceso y uso de los resultados de la investigación. Para alcanzar este objetivo es necesaria la intervención de varios actores, tales como: los organismos que f...

Se describe la producción científica peruana que sobre enfermedad renal crónica (ERC) se ha escrito en la literatura médica mediante una revisión bibliográfica no sistemática hasta abril del 2016. Los resultados se dividieron en seis áreas temáticas: prevalencia de ERC, etiología de la ERC, diagnóstico y manejo, cobertura de la atención, costos de...

Introducción: En 1981 aparece por primera vez reportado en Cuba y en el hemisferio occidental el helminto Angiostrongylus cantonensis. Objetivo: caracterizar la producción científica cubana sobre Angiostrongylus cantonensis en el período 1981-2015. Material y Métodos: Se consultaron las bases de datos Google Académico, Medline (PubMed), ScieELO Reg...

This article analyzes the scientific production of publications on altmetrics as an emergent discipline for research evaluation. The research objective was to identify the investigative tendencies that characterize the subject. The analysis studied documents indexed by Web of Science and Scopus databases. 253 documents were retrieved, showing a gro...

REVISIÓN La enfermedad renal crónica en el Perú. Una revisión narrativa de los artículos científicos publicados RESUMEN Se describe la producción científica peruana que sobre enfermedad renal crónica (ERC) se ha escrito en la literatura médica mediante una revisión bibliográfica no sistemática hasta abril del 2016. Los resultados se dividieron en s...

The scientific research processes have changed in the last years, because of the existence of alternative communication channels, such as: digital journals (pdf and html versions), institutional repositories, open access modules for journals edition, articles’ dataset, articles’ complementary video, among others. By other hand, there are several on...

RESUMEN El desarrollo y uso de nuevos esquemas terapéuticos para el tratamiento del cáncer, solos o asociados a esquemas conocidos (quimioterapia, radioterapia), pueden ocasionar toxicidades no sólo del corazón sino del sistema cardiovascular en su conjunto. Recientemente, una nueva especialidad que conjuga los conocimientos de la medicina interna...

Introduction: In 1981, Angiostrongylus cantonensis was first reported in Cuba and in the Western Hemisphere. Objective: To characterize the scientific Cuban production during the years 1981- 2015. Materials and Methods: Google Academic, Medline(PubMed), SciELO, CUMED, IBECS and LILACS databases were consulted, retrieving all the published papers fr...

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