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. 2022 Apr 28:77:103667.
doi: 10.1016/j.amsu.2022.103667. eCollection 2022 May.

Surgical research in Colombia part 1: Scientific and academic productivity of the Colombian research groups in surgery

Ivan David Lozada-Martinez  1   2 , Jeremías Carvajal-Bautista  3 , Yelson Alejandro Picón-Jaimes  1 , Gonzalo Dominguez-Alvarado  4 , Luis Felipe Cabrera-Vargas  5 , Lilian Torregrosa-Almonacid  6 , Oscar Guevara-Cruz  7 , Alexis Rafael Narvaez-Rojas  8 ; Colombian Future Surgeons Collaborative Group
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Surgical research in Colombia part 1: Scientific and academic productivity of the Colombian research groups in surgery

Ivan David Lozada-Martinez et al. Ann Med Surg (Lond). .

Abstract

Introduction: Global surgery has become the undisputed starting point for addressing a myriad of problems in surgery today. Therefore, it is necessary to constantly evaluate the scientific productivity in surgery, its behavior, validity and impact. In Latin America, specifically in Colombia, there are no studies that have analyzed this production.

Methods: A retrospective cross-sectional bibliometric study was carried out, in which the Colombian Ministry of Science database was consulted with the validated results up to July 2021. In the search section for research groups, the key word "Surgery" was used, and all associated GrupLAC (platform where the information of the research groups can be found) and their registered products were reviewed.

Results: 40 groups were included. Only 5 (12.5%) were registered in surgery as main line of research. The great majority of the groups were in the medium-low category, 50% in category C and 22.5% in category B. The vast majority of surgical groups are located in Bogotá (19; 47.5%). The first surgery group in the country was created in 1994 and the last one in 2017. In 27 years of surgical research, a total of 4121 registered scientific articles were found, 83 books, 713 book chapters, 2891 products associated with participation in scientific events, 1221 theses directed, and 1670 projects in colombian surgical research groups. There was evidence of a high rate of underreporting of data, due to duplication of products and incomplete registration of data.

Conclusions: There is a high rate of underreporting of products and data in the GrupLAC of Colombian surgical research groups. Most of the production is located in the Andes region (Antioquia, Valle del Cauca and Bogotá), and is predominantly composed of scientific articles and products associated with participation in scientific events.

Keywords: Colombia; General surgery; Publishing; Research; Research group.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

Figures

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Cumulative frequency representing chronology of the creation of Colombian research groups with research lines in surgery over the years.
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Geographical distribution of the number of surgical research groups in Colombia.
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Fig. 3
Comparison of frequencies, means and medians of scientific and academic production of Colombian surgical research groups.
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