02470nas a2200325   4500000000100000008004100001260000900042653001100051653001900062653001500081653001100096653002500107653002400132653001800156653001200174653002500186653002000211100001900231700002100250700001500271700001500286700001400301700002500315700002600340245014700366300001100513490000700524520159900531022001402130       1985                            d  c198510aBrazil10aChagas disease10aFilariasis10aHumans10aInformation Services10aInformation Systems10aLeishmaniasis10aMalaria10aPeriodicals as Topic10aschistosomiasis1 aCosta Lima J A1 aSchmitt Rosa C M1 aPiegas M H1 aPeixinho A1 aSchmidt A1 aBriquet de Lemos A A1 aMarcilio de Souza C A00a[Analysis of scientific information published in Brazil in 5 years on Chagas disease, schistosomiasis, malaria, leishmaniasis and filariasis].  a209-260 v193 a<p>This paper offers a quantitative evaluation of the scientific information produced in Brazil on several endemic diseases: Chagas' disease, schistosomiasis, leishmaniasis, leprosy, malaria and filariasis. The source of data was the Index Medicus Latino Americano (IMLA), and the published scientific information was analyzed in general and specifically, by type of disease and year of publication. The indexed production of articles on the material of the Latin American countries as a whole increased from 3,506 articles in 1978 to 5,528 in 1982 (for an increase of 52.7%), whereas that of Brazil alone rose from 1,781 to 2,531 (an increase of 42.1%) during the same period. The output of articles on endemic diseases totaled 703 papers (6.3% of the total indexed production). Of this total, 441 (62.7%) was on applied research and 262 (37.3%) were on basic research, and these proportions held relatively constant. Chagas' disease and schistosomiasis accounted for 75.2% of that total over the period considered. The production of papers on the diseases of interest grew 79.2%, at the same rate as that of all biomedical information published in Brazil over the period. An equilibrium was reached between the numbers of basic and applied papers. The analysis also identified the core of Brazilian periodicals that most frequently publish information on those endemics. It was also found that a large proportion of articles by Brazilian authors are published in journals of international circulation, and the foreign journals that publish papers by researchers in Brazil were identified.</p>  a0013-1091