Coauthorship Networks and Institutional Collaboration in Farmacia Hospitalaria

Aleixandre-Benavent, R.; González-Alcaide, G.; Alonso-Arroyo, A.; Bolaños-Pizarro, M.; Castelló-Cogollos, L.; Valderrama-Zurián, J.C.

doi:10.1016/S2173-5085(08)70044-3

Farmacia Hospitalaria

ISSN: 1130-6343

Farmacia Hospitalaria (Farm Hosp) is the official publication of the Spanish Society of Hospital Pharmacists (SEFH), a professional and scientific organization that currently has about 4.351 members.

The Mission of Farm Hosp is to be the support for health professionals for expanding the influence of projects, publications, and training programs, and to promote the exchange of experiences.

Vision Farm Hosp is:
- to increase the state of knowledge about the hospital pharmacy and whose actions should increase the adequate and safe use of medicines and health products.
- to be an instrument of exchange and dissemination of scientific knowledge of pharmacy practice through the best use and safe medication and health outcomes.

It is a peer-reviewed double-blind scientific journal aimed at publishing in the broad field of Hospital Pharmacy advances in Pharmacy Services. This journal included the following topics: Drug evaluation. Quality of life. Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs), and Patient Reported Experience Measures (PREMs) in the use of drugs. Monitoring medication. Pharmaceutical compounding. Medication administration. Management of Pharmacy Services (logistics, quality control). Technologies and information systems in the process of using medication. Medical devices. Patient Education. Pharmacist´s role in the society and /or in the Health System in Spain, and other topics related to clinical, scientific, and institutional role of hospital pharmacists.

Farmacia Hospitalaria publishes bimonthly (6 issues yearly) originals, short originals, reviews, clinical cases, special articles, protocols, consensus documents, clinical guidelines, letters to the editor, editorials.

All the articles are published in Spanish and English language regardless of the language in which they are received.

Farmacia Hospitalaria is an Open Access journal, whose content is available free of charge to users or their institutions. Users are authorised to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to entire texts of the articles in this journal without prior permission from the editor or author, according to the BOAI definition of Open Access. The papers may be re-used under the terms of the Creative Commons 4.0 license. (CC BY-NC-ND). Such use shall be subject to authorisation from SEFH, the journal owner.

Farmacia Hospitalaria journal charges no fees for submission of papers or publication of articles.

Adherence to international ethics recommendations

Manuscripts must follow the most recent recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (available at http://www.icmje.org).

The articles published in Farmacia Hospitalaria are indexed in PubMed and other 17 date bases:
- Evaluation databases: MEDLINE, DOAJ, Scopus, Latindex y Scimago Journal and Country Rank (SJR). Índice H: 18, quartile 3 (Medicine, miscellaneous / Pharmacology)
- Bibliographic databases: CINHAL, EMBASE Excerpta Medica, Índice Bibliográfico Español en Ciencias de la Salud (IBECS), Índice Español de Ciencia Y Tecnología (ICyT), Índice Médico Español (IME), International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (IPA).
- Journal collections: Dialnet, Medes, Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), REDIB, ScienceDirect, ClinicalKey.

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Medline, Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

448 articles were analyzed, showing an average signature/article index of 4.79. Applying a collaboration threshold of 3 articles, 26 clusters were formed with principal researchers being Jiménez Torres and Pérez Ruixo (n=16 co-authorships) and Ribas Sala and Codina Jané (n=15). Among the institutions, there was significant collaboration between the Complejo Hospitalario Virgen del Rocío and the Complejo Hospitalario Nuestra Señora del Valme (n=4), both in Seville, and between Hospital Vall d’Hebron (Barcelona), the Hospital de Navarra, and the Universitat de Barcelona (n=4).

Discussion

Analysis of the collaboration networks in Farmacia Hospitalaria has made it possible to identify the groups of authors and institutions in the area, as well as their relationships in terms of research and scientific publications. We propose to analyze the changes in these groups over a period of time, as well as to identify collaboration patterns in other national and international journals.

Key words:

Scientific journals

Scientific collaboration

Coauthorship analysis

Collaboration networks

Farmacia Hospitalaria

Introducción

La cooperación científica es necesaria para el progreso de la ciencia. El objetivo de este estudio es analizar la colaboración entre los autores e instituciones españolas en los trabajos científicos publicados en Farmacia Hospitalaria, para lo cual se han aplicado metodologías procedentes del análisis de redes sociales.

Métodos

Se han identificado las coautorías o firmas conjuntas de pares de autores e instituciones de un mismo trabajo publicado en Farmacia Hospitalaria durante la década 1998–2007, construyendo las redes de colaboración mediante los programas TextToPajek y Networks-PAJEK.

Resultados

Se han analizado 448 artículos en los que el valor medio del índice firmas/trabajo ha sido 4,79. Con un umbral de colaboración de 3 artículos, se conforman 26 grupos que tienen como investigadores centrales a Jiménez Torres y Pérez Ruixo (n=16 coautorías) y a Ribas Sala y Codina Jané (n=15). En las instituciones destaca la colaboración entre el Complejo Hospitalario Virgen del Rocío y el Complejo Hospitalario Nuestra Señora de Valme (n=4), ambas de Sevilla, y el Hospital Vall d’Hebron (Barcelona) con el Hospital de Navarra y la Universitat de Barcelona (n=4).

Discusión

El análisis de las redes de colaboración en Farmacia Hospitalaria ha permitido identificar a los grupos de autores e instituciones del área y sus relaciones desde el punto de vista de la investigación y las publicaciones científicas. Se propone analizar los cambios en estos grupos a lo largo del tiempo, así como identificar los patrones de colaboración en otras revistas nacionales y extranjeras.

Palabras clave:

Revistas científicas

Colaboración científica

Análisis de coautorías

Redes de colaboración

Farmacia Hospitalaria

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An abbreviated, non-published version of this study was presented in the Conference of the Andalusian Society of Pharmacists from Hospitals and Health Centers held in Seville, April 24–26, 2008.

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