Brazilian production in psychiatric journals with high impact factor in 2005

Abstract

Objective: We evaluated the Brazilian scientific production published in the year 2005 in the twenty psychiatric periodicals with high impact factor (IF) according to Journal of Citation Report (JCR), 2004. Methods: From 90 periodicals with IF ranging from 11,207 to 0,13, we selected all articles from periodicals with IF higher than percentile 75 (n = 20). We assessed which articles had at least one author affiliated to a Brazilian institution as well as articles that had only Brazilian authors or first/senior author belonging to a national institution. Secondly, the state distribution of the author(s) affiliation was determined. Results: Among 4,859 articles examined, 54 (1,11%) had at least one author from a Brazilian institution and 22 had first senior author belonging to a national institution, excluding the 32 publications composed only by Brazilian authors. The distribution by state showed São Paulo at first with 34 articles (55.73%) and absolute predominance of South-Southeast region (96.72%). Conclusion: Although psychiatry Brazilian publications had demonstrated apparent quantitative and qualitatite growing, our scientific production on the area is highly concentrated in a few states.