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Cardiovascular research in Spain. A comparative scientometric study

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A bibliometric analysis of Spanish cardiovascular research is presented. The study focuses on the productivity, visibility and citation impact in an international, notably European context. Special attention is given to international collaboration. The underlying bibliographic data are collected from Thomson Reuters’s Web of Science on the basis of a ‘hybrid’ search strategy combining core journals, lexical terms and citation links especially developed for the field of cardiology.

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  1. Adult mortality rate is defined as the probability of dying between 15 and 60 years per 1000 population.

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This research is in part supported by the V Segles Program of the University of Valencia (Spain). The first author wishes to acknowledge this support.

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  1. Unidad de Información e Investigación Social y Sanitaria-UISYS, CSIC-Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain

    Máxima Bolaños-Pizarro

  2. Centre for R&D Monitoring (ECOOM) and Department of MSI, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Bart Thijs & Wolfgang Glänzel

  3. Institute for Research Policy Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

    Wolfgang Glänzel

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Bolaños-Pizarro, M., Thijs, B. & Glänzel, W. Cardiovascular research in Spain. A comparative scientometric study. Scientometrics 85, 509–526 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-009-0155-2

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