Bibliometric analysis of The Peruvian Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics during the period 2018-2024

Abstract

Objectives: To perform a bibliometric analysis of The Peruvian Journal of Gynecology
and Obstetrics (PJGO) during the period 2018-2024. Materials and methods:
Bibliometric study in which all publications between 2018-2024 extracted from the
Scopus database were included. The number of publications, the most productive
institutions, the type of collaboration, the most productive countries, the most
cited articles and the authors with the highest academic production were used as
bibliographic indicators. These were exported to the Scival and Bibliometrix 4.2.1

platform for analysis. VosViewer program (version 1.6.10) was used to evaluate co-
citations between the PJGO and other journals indexed in Scopus. Results: A total

of 397 papers published in the PJGO by 758 authors were collected, with a total
of 208 citations (0.53 citations per paper). Most of the publications had national
collaboration and single authorship (122 papers). The Universidad Nacional Mayor
de San Marcos was the institution with the highest number of papers produced with
88 articles. Regarding the country of affiliation Peru, Venezuela, Spain and Colombia
led the list. Conclusions: The Peruvian Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics is a
journal of Latin American relevance and with a growing national and international
collaboration in the field of reproductive health.