Evaluación del impacto bibliográfico de las agencias y unidades españolas de evaluación de tecnologías sanitarias

Abstract

Describir y evaluar el impacto, en términos de citas bibliográficas, de la producción científica de las agencias y unidades de evaluación de tecnologías sanitarias españolas (agencias de ETS).

To assess the impact, in terms of citations of scientific production of the Spanish health technology assessment agencies and units (HTA Agencies). Methods: we analyzed the scientific output of the HTA Agencies, both through assessment reports, technical consultations and clinical practice guidelines versus journal articles published between 2000 and 2006. We studied their characteristics: document type, language, year of publication, medical specialty of the journal, position of the first author of the Agency, impact factor, financing, indexing in major bibliographic databases and the number of citations received in the databases or search engines that have citation indexes (Scopus, ISI Web of Science and Google Scholar). Subsequently we analyzed the characteristics of documents using the example cited abovementioned variables and the number of citations in the three sources of information outlined above.

Descriure i avaluar l'impacte, en termes de cites bibliogràfiques, de la producció científica de les agències i unitats d'avaluació de tecnologies sanitàries espanyoles (agències d'ATS).