[Cysticercosis. Scientific productivity measured with with a review of the literature published from 1965 to 1995].

Abstract

There have been 2521 articles published on cysticercosis between 1965 and 1995. An analysis of these articles is presented in this paper and includes the subjects, grouped in 61 descriptors and the frequency of each one, the number of articles published each year, which has increased, the journals used, in total 663, 7% of which include 42% of the articles, the parameters used to measure the quality and importance of the main journals used for cysticercosis, for example, 56% have impact factor, the authors and co-authors which add 4848, of these, 59 have published between 9 and 79 articles each one, the analysis of their frequency of publication indicates that once they start publishing on cysticercosis they follow on in this area. Of the most productive authors 58% are Latinoamerican, 22 of which are Mexican.