Indicators of scientific production on Health Policy

Abstract

Introduction: health and its maintenance constitute one of the main assets of man at any stage of his history. The implementation of health policies is aimed at solving global health problems that affect the population.Objective: characterize the scientific production on Health Policy in SCOPUSMethod: an observational, descriptive, bibliometric study was developed. A total of 229,339 articles were worked on. The SCOPUS database was used to collect the information; especially the SciVal tool for the analysis of information and the study of indicators. Descriptive statistics were applied to analyze the information.Results: a total of 229,339 articles were analyzed; equivalent to 2,471,305 appointments in the study period. I highlight the year 2023 with the highest number of articles published (31,982; 13.94%). The United States stood out with the highest number of articles published with 79,708 investigations (34.75%). The articles published in the journal BMC Health Services Research stood out with 10,425 investigations (23%). The largest number of articles were located in the health and health services categoryConclusions: scientific production related to Health Policy showed heterogeneous but constant growth, in contrast to the number of citations. The publications were related to the largest centers of scientific production. The research topics were directed with greater interest towards the quality of health services and assistance according to age groups