TY - JOUR
T1 - Scientific activity on Mini-Clinical Evaluation Exercise (mini-CEX) in health sciences areas
T2 - A bibliometric study
AU - Barja-Ore, John
AU - Muñoz-Estrada, Gloria Katty
AU - Mejía-Gomero, Cecilia
AU - Mayta-Tovalino, Frank
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 The Authors
PY - 2024/1/1
Y1 - 2024/1/1
N2 - Introduction: The Mini Clinical Evaluation Exercise is an educational tool that allows the evaluation of various clinical competencies and work scenarios. The aim of this study was to analyze the bibliometric characteristics and impact of the scientific production of Mini-Clinical Evaluation Exercise (mini-CEX) in the health sciences. Methods: Bibliometric study whose search source was Scopus, the query was performed on May 8, 2023, considering a search strategy consisting of Boolean operators and key terms. The SciVal tool and the RStudio Bibliometrix module were used to estimate and visualize the bibliometric parameters. Results: Weller and Chen were representative authors and showed dissemination connections with the main countries (Australia and China). The journal Education for Primary Care (Q2) was the most productive. Among the subcategories, General Medicine (34 publications) and Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine (21.1 citations per publication) had more publications and higher impact, respectively. Most manuscripts are published in Q3 quartile journals (30.9%), followed by Q1 quartile (25.5%); moreover, in the period 2017 to 2021 there was an increase in publications (50 articles). Publications with institutional were more frequent, but those with international collaboration had more citations per publication. Conclusions: In the last five years there is an increase in the number of published research on mini-CEX, and the main journal for dissemination was Education for Primary Care. National and institutional collaboration were the most frequent; in addition, Australia, China and the United States led the scientific activity in this field.
AB - Introduction: The Mini Clinical Evaluation Exercise is an educational tool that allows the evaluation of various clinical competencies and work scenarios. The aim of this study was to analyze the bibliometric characteristics and impact of the scientific production of Mini-Clinical Evaluation Exercise (mini-CEX) in the health sciences. Methods: Bibliometric study whose search source was Scopus, the query was performed on May 8, 2023, considering a search strategy consisting of Boolean operators and key terms. The SciVal tool and the RStudio Bibliometrix module were used to estimate and visualize the bibliometric parameters. Results: Weller and Chen were representative authors and showed dissemination connections with the main countries (Australia and China). The journal Education for Primary Care (Q2) was the most productive. Among the subcategories, General Medicine (34 publications) and Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine (21.1 citations per publication) had more publications and higher impact, respectively. Most manuscripts are published in Q3 quartile journals (30.9%), followed by Q1 quartile (25.5%); moreover, in the period 2017 to 2021 there was an increase in publications (50 articles). Publications with institutional were more frequent, but those with international collaboration had more citations per publication. Conclusions: In the last five years there is an increase in the number of published research on mini-CEX, and the main journal for dissemination was Education for Primary Care. National and institutional collaboration were the most frequent; in addition, Australia, China and the United States led the scientific activity in this field.
KW - Bibliometric Analysis
KW - Clinical Competence
KW - Mini-CEX
KW - Mini-Clinical Evaluation Exercise
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85173706102&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.edumed.2023.100861
DO - 10.1016/j.edumed.2023.100861
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85173706102
SN - 1575-1813
VL - 25
JO - Educacion Medica
JF - Educacion Medica
IS - 1
M1 - 100861
ER -