[Public health and aging in Mexico: a bibliometric review]

The aim of this review is to describe the development of the aging and public health field in Mexico, in order to identify its trends, its main authors and their impact, based on the scientific production generated between the 1970s and 2000s decades. 166 articles on population-based studies about Mexican older people living in Mexico were included. The analysis involved bibliometric indicators regarding productivity, authorship, and impact. The findings show that the volume of scientific output was low, 28 articles, and they were published in Spanish at the beginning of the period; however, during the 2000s decade, scientific production increased considerably, with 138 articles, most of them published in English and in international journals. Epidemiology of aging was the main domain of knowledge (79%) and health services articles were the secondary domain; 96% of studies used quantitative methods. Most of the articles were published in journals with impact factor and in the second and third quartiles, besides the average number of citation was 16.2 and 17 articles were the top-cited publications. The scientific community had 465 authors, but only 54 authors were the ones who guided the main production of this field, among them, 17 prolific authors were notable because of their productivity and participation. This review shows the consolidation of epidemiology of aging as a field of public health in Mexico.