Análisis de la producción, visibilidad y citación de la Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Pública, 2002 - 2009

biomedical journals are the most used and important venue to disseminate and interchange scientific information, and evaluation is an important component. a bibliometric study was conducted on the productivity, visibility and citation analysis of the revista peruana de medicina experimental y salud pública (rpmesp), from 2002 to 2009. during this period, the rpmesp published about 62 documents per year, 55.3% were research articles. the visibility of rpmesp, determined among three databases (sisbib-unmsm, scielo-peru, and redalyc), was irregular, increasing on july 2006, with the highest access on october 2009 (117,618 hits). 43.0% of publications were cited. the calculated impact factor in isi journals was 0.04 in 2009. in conclusion, the citation of rpmesp shows a slowly growing during the period 2002-2009. it is hoped that the rpmesp increase its visibility and impact after its inclusion in medline.