摘要
Objective
<p>To determine the production, impact and collaboration of smoking reduction (SR) articles published from 2002 to 2007 using the Science Citation Index-Expanded (SCI-E).Methods
<p>We performed a bibliographic search of the articles related with SR in the SCI-E on January 18, 2008, for the years 2002鈥?007, using previously-defined descriptors. Later, the articles were manually reviewed in order to avoid the inclusion of non-pertinent registers. The statistical analysis was descriptive (95%CI).Results
<p>After discarding the non-pertinent registers, 100 documents remained, with a total of 272 authors (including one anonymous) and 372 signatures from a total of 119 institutions in 14 different countries. The type of document most frequently published was original research (66%), with a mean number of signatures per article (SPA) of 3.72. The most productive journals were Nicotine & Tobacco Research with 19 articles and Addiction and Tobacco Control with 9 and 6 articles, respectively. The number of documents that were cited was 67, with a total of 534 citations and a mean of 5.34 citations per study. We have found that there are some well-consolidated workgroups, although there still has not been much collaboration amongst them.Conclusions
<p>We can affirm that SR is a thriving, emerging subarea of smoking research that presents consolidated workgroups, although there is no clear cohesion among these. The impact of SR research is greater than the mean found for total smoking research.
