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The geographic distribution of Mexican health sciences research

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The distribution of Mexican health science publications according to the states of origin, institutions, main cities has been measured in four main health science bibliographic databases. The results showed that Mexican health sciences research activities are highly skewed.

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  1. Department of Information Science, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

    Blaise Cronin & Judith Licea de Arenas

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Cronin, B., de Arenas, J.L. The geographic distribution of Mexican health sciences research. Scientometrics 17, 39–48 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02017721

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