Editorial Editorial

Abstract

When we wonder about the state of scientific production worldwide, we often turn to portals, tools, or rankings that provide bibliometric information as a measure of publishing capacity, thereby giving us an idea of ​​the scientific production published worldwide. Among the most recognized are Web of Science, SCImago Journal and Country Rank, Google Scholar Metrics, among others, which present various bibliometric indicators according to areas and subareas of knowledge, which can be analyzed by country or region. While these sources are often consulted more frequently, there are multiple sources of information for evaluating scientific activity that complement each other, providing a much more robust overview of countries' scientific production and capacity. These include patent databases, industrial design databases, technology bulletins, and other analyses, or platforms developed by government agencies, technical units, or national, regional, and international observatories, which provide high-value information beyond the reach of scientific databases for serial and non-serial publications. The fundamental purpose of this space is to offer a brief reflection on scientific production in the health field, with particular attention to the findings for Colombia. To this end, we will focus our analysis on the information provided by SCImago, planning to present findings from the analysis of the other sources mentioned in future issues. Starting with the information provided by the SCImago graphical interface, we find that scientific production in terms of documents for the health-related areas ("Dentistry," "Health Professions," "Immunology and Microbiology," "Medicine," "Neuroscience," and "Nursing") is primarily distributed among four of the nine clusters into which publishing capacity is organized worldwide. These clusters or communities are, in order of distribution, according to the highest documentary production: pink, corresponding to medicine; orange, with an emphasis on nursing, health professions, and neuroscience; The green cluster belongs to dentistry, and the yellow cluster, which corresponds to the life sciences, contains documentary production in immunology and microbiology. Analyzing this same distribution in Colombia, we find the aforementioned communities, but with a significantly lower volume of documents in all of them, particularly in the orange cluster. This allows us to infer the need to increase published documentary production in the areas of neuroscience, health professions, and nursing. When we focused on the "Health Professions" area due to its relationship with the topics of interest to the journal
Movimiento Científico, we identified, in the comparison of documents by region for 2014, that North America and Western Europe accounted for the highest production, while Latin America had the lowest production of any region, with a volume of documents 7 to 9 times lower than the leading regions in productivity. Thus, within the Latin American region, when comparing documents published in the same year, Brazil ranks first, followed by Cuba, Chile, and Mexico, and Colombia ranks fifth, with a volume of documents 16 times lower than the first, a situation that doubles when analyzing the citation indicator.
This leads us to confirm the need for publications such as Movimiento Científico, which, by promoting the dissemination and circulation of knowledge in the field of human body movement, public health, and related areas, allows professionals interested in these topics to share their findings with the academic community, thereby contributing to the visibility of high-level research in Colombia and Latin America. This issue of the journal presents findings regarding the effects of physical training programs on health conditions, the incidence and prevalence of sports injuries, advances in neurorehabilitation, presenteeism as an emerging phenomenon in occupational health and safety, and other aspects of interest in the clinical and healthcare field. We reaffirm our commitment to high-quality scientific dissemination; therefore, starting with this issue, our circulation will be biannual, allowing you, our target audience, to access the latest research advances in a shorter timeframe.