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Gaceta Sanitaria

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Social Sciences and Humanities 437 18 46 10
Medicine 2715 25 35 8

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 51
Documents by Best Scientists*: 74
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 1
SCIMAGO H-index: 53
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.521
Impact Factor: 1.5

Overview

Top Research Topics at Gaceta Sanitaria?

The scientific interests tackled in Gaceta Sanitaria are Humanities, Public health, Demography, Gerontology and Health care.

  • Humanities (14.00%)
  • Public health (5.51%)
  • Demography (4.70%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • El Cuestionario de Salud SF-36 español: una década de experiencia y nuevos desarrollos (534 citations)
  • Las palabras y las cosas (386 citations)
  • Qué es una tecnología sanitaria eficiente en España (345 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Gaceta Sanitaria:

The most cited papers aim to foster the development of research in Humanities, Gerontology, Public health, Demography and Health care. Humanities research in the journal publications connects with the study of Atencion primaria. In addition to Gerontology research, the most cited papers aim to explore topics under Psychological intervention, Logistic regression and MEDLINE.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Ecology
  • Botany
  • Internal medicine

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal focuses largely on the fields of Humanities, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak and MEDLINE. MEDLINE and Environmental health are closely related fields of research discussed in it.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Analysis of the impact of lockdown on the reproduction number of the SARS-Cov-2 in Spain. (18 citations)
  • Letalidad de la COVID-19: ausencia de patrón epidemiológico (15 citations)
  • Las estadísticas sanitarias y la invisibilidad por sexo y de género durante la epidemia de COVID-19 (11 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Gaceta Sanitaria (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Sociedad Española de Epidemiología (171 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Carme Borrell (145 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Esteve Fernández (93 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • Carlos Álvarez-Dardet (90 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Joan R. Villalbí (84 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Gaceta Sanitaria (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Pompeu Fabra University (302 papers) published 14 papers at the last edition, 5 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Alicante (271 papers) published 21 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Carlos III Health Institute (200 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • Autonomous University of Barcelona (178 papers) published 9 papers at the last edition, 5 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Barcelona (174 papers) published 9 papers at the last edition, 4 more than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 21.62% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 43.68% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 15.52% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 20.69% of all publications and 20.11% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

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Top Publications

  • The role of parental social class, education and unemployment on child cognitive development.

    Llúcia González;Rosa Cortés-Sancho;Mario Murcia;Ferran Ballester

    (2020)
    52 Citations
  • Energy poverty, its intensity and health in vulnerable populations in a Southern European city

    Juli Carrere;Andrés Peralta;Laura Oliveras;María José López

    (2021)
    38 Citations
  • Tackling second-hand exposure to tobacco smoke and aerosols of electronic cigarettes: the TackSHS project protocol.

    Esteve Fernández;María José López;Silvano Gallus;Sean Semple

    (2020)
    35 Citations
  • Fiber burden and asbestos-related diseases: an umbrella review.

    José María Ramada Rodilla;Beatriz Calvo Cerrada;Consol Serra Pujadas;George L. Delclos

    (2021)
    30 Citations
  • Inequities in the distribution of COVID-19: an adaptation of WHO's conceptual framework.

    Hugo Vásquez-Vera;Brenda Biaani León-Gómez;Carme Borrell;Constanza Jacques-Aviñó

    (2021)
    28 Citations
  • Decline in fertility induced by economic recession in Spain.

    Vanessa Puig-Barrachina;Maica Rodríguez-Sanz;María Felicitas Domínguez-Berjón;Unai Martín

    (2020)
    24 Citations
  • Barcelona Salut als Barris: Twelve years’ experience of tackling social health inequalities through community-based interventions

    Ferran Daban;M. Isabel Pasarín;Carme Borrell;Lucía Artazcoz

    (2021)
    21 Citations
  • Desigualdades socioeconómicas y COVID-19 en España. Informe SESPAS 2022

    (2022)
    18 Citations

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