Table 2.
Top 10 Latin American countries with the highest scientific production about osteoporosis, 1990 to 2019.
| Rankin | Country | Documents | Documents/year | Documents/1 million inhabitants* | Citations†/document | h-index | Major funder (n) | Author with highest production (n) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brazil | 1961 | 65.4 | 9,3 | 25,6 | 85 | CNPq (194) | Pereira, Rosa Maria Rodrigues (60) |
| 2 | Argentina | 614 | 20.5 | 13,7 | 49.6 | 73 | CONICET (27) | Zanchetta, José Rubén (60) |
| 3 | México | 473 | 15.8 | 3,7 | 33.6 | 59 | CONACYT (57) | Clark, Patricia. (38) |
| 4 | Chile | 208 | 6.9 | 11 | 43.5 | 45 | FONDECYT (9) | Pino, Ana María (14) |
| 5 | Colombia | 171 | 5.7 | 6 | 18.3 | 24 | COLCIENCIAS (5) | Curcio, Carmen Lucia (7) |
| 6 | Venezuela | 70 | 2.3 | 2,5 | 27,7 | 21 | FONACIT (5) | Martinis, Ruby (5) |
| 7 | Cuba | 53 | 1.8 | 4,7 | 5,5 | 6 | – | Mendoza, Sarahí (13) |
| 8 | Puerto Rico | 45 | 1.5 | 14,1 | 4 | 18 | NCRR (13) | Haddock, Lillian/Mayor, Ángel M/Vilá, Luis M (4) |
| 9 | Perú | 33 | 1.1 | 1 | 45,5 | 14 | NCI (2) | Vidal, Luis Fernando (2) |
| 10 | Ecuador | 30 | 1 | 1,7 | 10,4 | 7 | – | Chedraui, Peter A. (5) |
*
Population of the year 2019, World Bank Group.
†
Citations from the year 1990 to 2019; CNPq: National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, Brazil; CONICET: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina; CONACYT: Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología - Mexico; FONDECYT: Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico, Chile; COLCIENCIAS: Departamento administrativo de ciencia, tecnología e innovación, Colombia; FONACIT: Fondo Nacional de Ciencia Tecnología e Innovación, Venezuela; NCRR: National Center for Research Resources, United States; NCI: National Cancer Institute, United States.