Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
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Rev. Inst. Med. Trop. Sao Paulo · Sep 2014
South American collaboration in scientific publications on leishmaniasis: bibliometric analysis in SCOPUS (2000-2011).
Evaluate the production and the research collaborative network on Leishmaniasis in South America. ⋯ South American scientific production on Leishmaniasis published in journals indexed in SCOPUS is focused on Brazilian research activity. It is necessary to strengthen the collaboration networks. The first step is to identify the institutions with higher production, in order to perform collaborative research according to the priorities of each country.