Abstract

GALVEZ TORO, Alberto; HUESO MONTORO, César  and  AMEZCUA, Manuel. CUIDEN indicators of the impact of the nursing magazines from the Spanish and Portuguese linguistic area. Index Enferm [online]. 2004, vol.13, n.46, pp.76-80. ISSN 1699-5988.

OBJECTIVE. To calculate the impact indicators Cuiden from a great amount of Iberoamerican nursing magazines. METHODS. Because of its design, it's about a bibliometric study. Thirty - three nursing magazines, published in the year 2002, have been included; twenty of them were Spanish, five Brazilian, three Mexican, two Colombian, and one from Cuba, Chile and Argentina. For the calculation of the indicators the following variables have been selected: number of articles per magazine, number of quotations which each magazine receives, number of auto quotations and the date of publications of the mentioned articles. Three indicators of quotes Cuiden have been calculated: Historic Impact, Historic Impact excluding auto quotes, and Immediate Impact. RESULTS. From the 33 magazines, there are 9 which stand out. In alphabetical order : Index de Enfermería (Spain), Enfermería Clínica (Spain), Enfermería Intensiva (Spain), Desarrollo Científico de Enfermería (Mexico), Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem (Brazil), Matronas Profesión (Spain), Rol de Enfermería (Spain), Revista Latinoamericana de Enfermagem (Brazil) y Gerokomos (Spain). CONCLUSIONS. The linguistic area of Spanish and Portuguese has got an important number of magazines with a large impact. Publishing in magazines with great impact is an element that improves the circulation of any research. Nurses must consider this fact and think about the publication on these magazines whatever the country they may be published. Nowadays globalization doesn't mean barriers for the circulation of the knowledge.