title: [Spanish pediatric research in MEDLINE].
abstract: The objective of this work was to elaborate and apply search filters to retrieve the Spanish scientific output (SO) in pediatrics. A bibliographic search was carried out in MEDLINE. The search was based on the construction and application of a Spanish geographic filter, elaborated according to a previous model, and a thematic one to retrieve records in the pediatric area. The following was determined: frequency of the records, place of publication, language, journal, number of authors and year of publication; to observe the dynamics of the SO, a bibliographic study was carried out over a period of ten years. By applying the geographic filter, 277,949 records were retrieved; 620 were retrieved in the pediatric Spanish area. Of these, 262 (42.26%) were published between 2000-2009. Most of records were signed by one author. In Spain, the records were published in 42 journals and abroad in 79 journals. A search filter able to retrieve the pediatric Spanish SO was created, that supposed 1.22% of the total records in the pediatric field encompassed by MEDLINE. Approximately 80% of these articles were published in Spain.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Pediatría, Hospital Universitario San Juan, Alicante. radut_dan@gva.es
authors.forename: D S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Radut
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D016239:MEDLINE; D010372:Pediatrics; D013030:Spain