Análise cientométrica sobre a produção científica em meditação nos periódicos da Medicina

Abstract

The general objective of this study was to analyze the insertion of the theme Meditation at the core in scientific journals of the medical area, referring to the six countries (United States, United Kingdom, (SCOPUS) and England (Web of Science); India, Australia and Canada) that lead the ranking of that scientific production is indexed in the Web of Science and SCOPUS databases. This is a scientometric study, descriptive, with a quantitative approach, in the period from 2009 to 2018.The search analyzed the core in scientific journals with regard to the impact, origin, the subject category and the identification of the 15 titles that most published about the theme. The result of the research showed that the core consists of journals classified in different subjects in the medical field, in both databases. The specialties they highlighted were: Neurology (Web of Science) and Psychiatry, (SCOPUS). In reference to the impact, it was found that the majority of the titles are high impact and from countries in North America and Europe. This study can contribute to reveal patterns of behavior through metric studies, concerning to the formal channel used by that scientifical community to publish your search results.