Producción científica española sobre salud laboral indizada en el Indice Médico Español (IME)

Abstract

The aims of this paper are: 1) to evaluate Spanish scientific publications on Occupational Health between 1971 and 2007, based on data collected from the IME database; 2) to present the features related to authorship, and the connections and potential cooperation among researchers; and 3) to determine emerging topics and main areas of interest. Through a derived search methodology, we have carried out an exhaustive scanning of IME records on Occupational Health, selected according to relevance. The results of this search were exported and analysed with the ProCite reference manager. This procedure allowed us to perform a survey of authorship and connections, and an analysis of temporal sets by descriptors and categories. The results are 1,530 references of public documents from 180 scientific journals, conferences and book chapters. The average figure of authors per article is 2.6. One third of the authors published only one article on the topic. The subject most frequently studied belongs to the field of Organizational Psychology. The conclusions we have arrived at are: 1) there is a high level of cooperation among authors, a low level of specialisation, as it refers both to authorship and to journals where scientific papers are published; 2) a rising trend in the field of Organizational Psychology, with a clear increase in this area during the last four years