National Cancer Institute scientific production scientometric analysis

Introduction: Scientometrics allows analyzing scientific publications productivity and impact through bibliometric computational techniques. Objective: To propose a multidimensional methodology in order to obtain the scientometric profile of National Cancer Institute (INCan), Mexico, rank it with regard other national health institutions. Method: Using LabSOM software ViBlioSOM based on artificial neural networks, INCan production indexed Web Science from 2007 2017 was analyzed. The obtained compared that Results: In terms productivity, ranks fourth among 10 Mexican public institutions Science; normalized ranking, sixth. Although out 1323 articles 683 (51.62 %) did not receive citations, 11 classified as excellent (0.83 24 % 11,932 citations and, consequently, rate showed mean higher than world mean. Conclusion: Multidimensional analysis proposed network enables obtaining more reliable comprehensive absolute relative institutional scientiometric derived measuring isolated variables.