Participation in health in the Americas: Bibliometric mapping of production, impact, visibility and collaboration

Abstract Participation in health has generated a large number of publications around the world. In order to know the specificities of this production in the Americas, a bibliometric analysis of articles in English, Spanish and Portuguese was carried out. Searches were carried out in the VHL, PubMed, SCOPUS, WOS and SciELO, consolidating a database with 641 references. With the help of the VOSviewer software, we analyzed citation patterns, co-authorship and the chronological distribution by countries and languages. It was possible to verify the growth of production, the quantitative relevance and the impact of the different countries. The analysis indicated that the USA concentrates the largest number of citations and Brazil, despite being the first in number of publications, is the third in number of citations. The same occurs with Brazilian journals that, with the largest number of articles, fall in the ranking of the most cited. The co-authorship analysis indicated that the University of Toronto, Fiocruz and Harvard University have the most formal collaborations with other organizations. We conclude that there are inequalities of impact, visibility and internationalization in this field, indicating obstacles to scientific development and health policies.摘要 健康领域的学术活动在全球范围内催生了海量学术文献。为明晰美洲地区该类学术产出的具体特征，本研究针对英语、西班牙语及葡萄牙语期刊刊载的论文开展了文献计量分析。本研究依托VHL、PubMed、SCOPUS、WOS及SciELO数据库进行文献检索，最终整合得到包含641条文献记录的数据集。借助VOSviewer可视化分析软件，本研究对文献引用模式、合著关系以及按国家和语言划分的时间分布特征展开分析。分析结果证实了该领域学术产出的增长趋势，以及不同国家在该领域的产出规模与学术影响力。分析结果显示，美国的总引用量位居首位；而巴西尽管发文量排名第一，总引用量却仅位列第三。巴西本土期刊也呈现出类似态势：尽管发文量位居前列，其总引用量却未能进入高影响力期刊榜单。合著关系分析显示，多伦多大学、Fiocruz以及哈佛大学与其他科研机构的正式合作最为紧密。本研究最终得出结论：该领域存在学术影响力、可见度及国际化程度层面的不均衡现象，这为领域内的科学发展与健康政策制定带来了一定阻碍。