Abstract

FRANCO-PAREDES, Karina; DIAZ-RESENDIZ, Felipe de Jesús; PINEDA-LOZANO, Jéssica Elizabeth  and  HIDALGO-RASMUSSEN, Carlos Alejandro. Bibliometric analysis of scientific production of Mexican Journal of Eating Disorders, 2010-2014. Rev. Mex. de trastor. aliment [online]. 2016, vol.7, n.1, pp.9-16. ISSN 2007-1523.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rmta.2016.03.001.

The aim of this research was to characterize the scientific production of the Revista Mexicana de Trastornos Alimentarios /Mexican Journal of Eating Disorders during the 2010-2014 period. A retrospective and descriptive analysis of published articles in the period 2010-2014 was performed. The type of production, authorship pattern, country, average number of references per article, and type of documents cited were analyzed. The results showed that 70 articles were published in five volumes of the Revista Mexicana de Trastornos Alimentarios /Mexican Journal of Eating Disorders. The highest percentage was original studies (64.28%). The mean number of author per article was four, and five women were the highest productive ones. Mexican researchers have been made the most percentage of contributions (60%) and most of them belong to the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México . Furthermore, the collaboration among researchers of two or three different countries was identified. On average of 46 references were cited per article, mostly of them were scientific journal articles. It is concluded that Revista Mexicana de Trastornos Alimentarios /Mexican Journal of Eating Disorders showed similar indexes to those obtained by health journals and psychology journals.

Keywords : Bibliometrics; Periodicals; Production indexes; Mexican Journal of Eating Disorders.