title: [Spanish bibliographic production on AIDS. Bibliometric approach].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  We analyze Spanish production of the books published in Spain about AIDS and they are put together in the database ISBN.
  
  
  METHODS
  For every book there considered various things: author, year of publication, ISBN classification, language, edition, place publicated and publishers were analyzed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  There are 275 books analyzed. Which they are classified in the Data Base under 33 different classes. The principal class is general pathology, clinic medicine and therapeutics with 113 books. The places in which more books where published was Barcelona (39.63%) and Madrid (30.54%). The publishing house were the ones which published more books (44.26%). The 81.81% of the books were written originally by some of the languages of our country, with at 18.18% which were transduced by other languages. The ones that were transduced were principally english (54%) and french (34%).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These results confirm the tendency observed in other studies and indicate the increase of Spanish publications on AIDS, this is observe after the years.
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Estudios Documentales e Históricos sobre la Ciencia, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Valencia, CSIC.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Osca
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; D015706:Bibliometrics; D016206:Databases, Bibliographic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D013030:Spain