Table 1.

Mental health research and publication output among LAC countries

				ISI (1995–2005)			Medline and Psycinfo (1993–2003)
LAC countries	Medline and Psycinfo (1993–2003) Number of papers n (%)	Medline (1993–2003) Number of papers n	Psycinfo (1993–2003) Number of papers n	Number of papers in the psychiatry and psychology categories n (%)	Number of citations	Citations per paper	Number of first authors
Argentina	665 (27.7)	374	291	187 (8.9)	968	5.18	455
Belize	0	0	0	–	–	–	0
Bolivia	14 (0.6)	4	10	–	–	–	13
Brazil*	792 (33.0)	441	351	586 (28.0)	3131	5.34	525
Chile	187 (7.8)	105	82	116 (5.6)	367	3.16	117
Colombia	114 (4.8)	45	69	118 (5.7)	298	2.53	69
Costa Rica	22 (0.9)	12	10	23 (1.1)	137	5.96	15
Cuba	42 (1.7)	27	15	30 (1.4)	128	4.27	33
Dominica	0	0	0	–	–	–	0
Dominican Republic	01 (0.1)	1	0	–	–	–	1
Ecuador	26 (1.1)	6	20		–	–	13
El Salvador	06 (0.2)	4	2	–	–	–	5
Grenada	01 (0.1)	0	1		–	–	1
Guatemala	11 (0.4)	4	7	–	–	–	7
Guyana	0	0	0	–	–	–	0
Haiti	03 (0.1)	1	2	–	–	–	3
Honduras	05 (0.2)	1	4	–	–	–	4
Jamaica	20 (0.8)	16	4	25 (1.2)	179	7.16	13
Mexico*	256 (10.7)	129	127	900 (43.0)	1840	2.04	193
Nicaragua	03 (0.1)	3	0	–	–		2
Panama	03 (0.1)	1	2	–	–	–	3
Paraguay	0	0	0	–	–	–	0
Peru	88 (3.7)	60	28	–	–	–	63
St Kitts and Nevis	0	0	0	–	–	–	0
St Lucia	0	0	0	–	–	–	0
St Vincent and the Grenadines	0	0	0	–	–	–	0
Suriname	0	0	0	–	–	–	0
Trinidad Tobago	14 (0.6)	12	2	12 (0.6)	88	7.33	11
Uruguay	25 (1.0)	2	23	–			24
Venezuela	99 (4.1)	42	57	88 (4.2)	356	4.05	57
Total	2397 (100.0)	1290	1107	2085 (100.0)	6620		1627

ISI, Institute for Scientific Information; LAC, Latin American and Caribbean.

^*The number of papers from Brazil and Mexico in Medline and PsycInfo were counted only for the years 1999–2003.