Análisis de la productividad científica de la psiquiatría española a través de las tesis doctorales en la base de datos TESEO (1993-2002)

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"Analysis of the Scientific Productivity of the Spanish Psychiatry through Doctoral Thesesin TESEO Data Base (1993-2002). Spanish scientific productivity within Psychiatricstudies is measured by analyzing the volume of doctoral dissertations carried out byprofessors of Psychiatry at the different Spanish public universities, between 1993 and2002, and registered on the official data base Tesis Españolas Ordenadas (TESEO). Thesample consists of 126 university professors and associate professors and a total of 294thesis dissertations. In this study, only those dissertations supervised by a doctor havebeen taken into account. The resulting proportion is 2.33 dissertations per professor. Themost productive professor supervised up to 17 theses; hence, these data result in a meanof 2 theses per year. A total of 28 professors, 22.2% of the sample, supervised 210 theses,which represents 71.42 % of the whole production. The university with the highest rateof dissertations on Psychiatry between 1993 and 2002 is the University of Alcalá deHenares, with a proportion of 20 theses per professor, followed by University of Cadizwith 6.66 theses per professor. The University of Extremadura reaches the third placewith 5.33 theses per professor. At the end of this paper, some conclusions about the stateof the art on this topic have been obtained."