TY - JOUR
T1 - Latin American Scientific Production On Mental Health In Times Of Covid-19
AU - Hernández, Ronald M.
AU - Saavedra-Lopez, Miguel A.
AU - Calle-Ramirez, Xiomara M.
AU - Cjuno, Julio
AU - Escobedo, Fernando
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021,Malaysian Journal of Public Health Medicine.All Rights Resered
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The main characteristics of publications on mental health in times of COVID-19, made by authors affiliated with Latin American institutions, are here described. A retrospective and descriptive analysis of 2,656 articles indexed in Scopus database during 2020 is conducted. This database was chosen for its high-quality scientific journals. The results indicate that Latin American scientific production represents 4.74% of the world production, and Brazil is the country with the largest production of publications, followed by Colombia, Mexico and Chile. Latin American scientific works have been published in 82 journals. Psychiatry Research is the journal with the largest number of publications, followed by Estudos De Psicologia Campinas (Brazil). The authors are mainly affiliated with institutions in Brazil, and Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul as well as Universidad del Rosario in Colombia are the institutions with the largest number of publications. Review articles and letters to the editor are the most cited types of publications. Finally, it was found that the most used keywords were the descriptors coronavirus, pandemic, mental disease, mental health problems such as anxiety and depression.
AB - The main characteristics of publications on mental health in times of COVID-19, made by authors affiliated with Latin American institutions, are here described. A retrospective and descriptive analysis of 2,656 articles indexed in Scopus database during 2020 is conducted. This database was chosen for its high-quality scientific journals. The results indicate that Latin American scientific production represents 4.74% of the world production, and Brazil is the country with the largest production of publications, followed by Colombia, Mexico and Chile. Latin American scientific works have been published in 82 journals. Psychiatry Research is the journal with the largest number of publications, followed by Estudos De Psicologia Campinas (Brazil). The authors are mainly affiliated with institutions in Brazil, and Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul as well as Universidad del Rosario in Colombia are the institutions with the largest number of publications. Review articles and letters to the editor are the most cited types of publications. Finally, it was found that the most used keywords were the descriptors coronavirus, pandemic, mental disease, mental health problems such as anxiety and depression.
KW - COVID-19
KW - Latin America
KW - Scientific production
KW - mental health
KW - pandemic
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85116023398&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.37268/mjphm/vol.21/no.2/art.795
DO - 10.37268/mjphm/vol.21/no.2/art.795
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85116023398
SN - 1675-0306
VL - 21
SP - 103
EP - 111
JO - Malaysian Journal of Public Health Medicine
JF - Malaysian Journal of Public Health Medicine
IS - 2
ER -