MEDICAL-RESEARCH IN CHILE - QUANTITATIVE INDICATORS

Diverse indicators were used to examine medical research in Chile. Acc ording to participation in Fondecyt projects, it was concluded that 42 0 persons were involved in medical sciences research and that 41.9% of them had no postgraduate title. During the eighties, there was a clea r aging of the community dedicated to medical research. The scientific productivity was assessed through the inventory of publications in in dexed journals. During the eighties, the number of articles in Clinica l Medicine and Biomedical Sciences increased two-fold. The University of Chile published the greatest number of articles, followed by the Ca tholic University and, with a remarkable lower amount, other Universit ies. The impact of the published articles in Clinical Medicine and Bio medical Sciences was calculated from the citations that they generated from 1986 to 1988. Likewise, the articles registered in 1985 with the higher citation indexes were identified.