Bencomo GDN, Sánchez AS, Hernández FK, Cárdenas BL, Fundora MJA, Dorta CAJ

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ABSTRACT

Introduction: since 2010, the Iberoamerican universities have an external science quality surveyor: SCImago Institutions Rankings.
Objective: to analyse the permanence and variation of the indicators that have made possible University of Medical Sciences of Havana to be placed in the ranking 2010-2012 in the four indicators, i.e. scientific production, international cooperation, mean scientific quality and first quartile journal quality average and its variation rates in each topic in comparison with the other ones.
Materials and methods: UCM-H information obtained from SIR iberoamerican rankings from 2010 to 2012 were analysed. Production-related data corresponds to articles that have included an address belonging from the university and of each one of the different faculties that have been appeared separately. For citation-based data all publications from the established period was analysed.
Results: our University was placed in the third place among the Cuban institutions and occupied the first one among Cuban medical universities. An increment of 17,3% of published papers was observed but it is not enough. The university drops 15 steps in the Iberoamerican ranking and 14 steps in the Latin-American one. International cooperation was 13% higher and the quality average drops in comparison to the previous versions as well as the quality journal indicator. There are 10 faculties from our university that present its production independently. Among them, Calixto García Faculty increases its international cooperation and "Miguel Enriquez" Faculty dramatically increases the quality of the journal where have published.
Conclusion: it should be consider that this ranking is a challenge for the knowledge measurement mechanisms.

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