Estudio bibliométrico de los trabajos especiales de grado sobre cirugía presentados de la Facultad de Odontología de La Universidad de Los Andes, 2005-2017

Abstract

Oral and Maxillofacial surgery is that specialty of dentistry that deals with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases, trauma and functional or aesthetic defects, congenital or acquired hard and soft tissues of the oral and maxillofacial region. For this reason, it represents an area of importance, especially when students conduct research as a requirement for the presentation of the special degree work, which can be analyzed by bibliometric markers. The objective of this study was to analyze the behavior of bibliometric indicators in the special degree work at the Faculty of Dentistry, Universidad de Los Andes (FOULA) between the years 2005- 2017 in the area of Surgery. It was analytical research of documental design, where the production indicators were described by years and tutor’s area, as well as the thematic and methodological content indicators. An analysis of the methodological structure was also carried out. The sample was made up of 53 theses on surgery. They were carried out in ten different subjects. It was found: Vancouver as a reference style, the quantitative approach, the type of descriptive research, longitudinal and experimental designs, observation as a data collection technique and descriptive statistics. There were 87% errors in taxonomic classification including misuse of methodological authors. It is concluded that it is important to establish a better interaction among professors of the Department of Research and the subject of Surgery at the FOULA since an excess of methodological errors was observed.