Revisión bibliométrica de trabajos de investigación de Seguridad y Salud en el Trabajo (SST) en Colombia

Bibliometry is a quantitative tool for analyzing productivity and characterizing the scientific literature. This is the first work in Colombia that addresses this type of analysis to characterize scientific production in Safety and Occupational Health in the past ten years. The articles were searched and selected between 2008 and 2018 in Bireme, Scopus, Web of Science, ScienceDirect, PubMed, EMBASE, Scielo, EBSCO, JSTOR, applying inclusion, exclusion, and subsequent selection criteria with Rayyan©. The variables were defined and the bibliometric indicators of 434 articles were calculated: 59% of the Andean, Bogotá and Caribbean regions, 2015 and 2016, years of higher production. Of the total national publications between 2013 and 2017, only 0.4% are in SST, 51% had between 1 and 10 consultations; 76% corresponds only to Colombian authors, 49% have collaboration between two or more institutions and in 64% three or more authors collaborate. Only for 7% there were collaboration between two or more regions and 86% of the authors have only one published article. Scientific production was concentrated in the center of the country and occupational medicine was the most discussed topic. There was a tendency for growth in the period studied and low international collaboration and between regions.