Clinica e Investigacion en Ginecologia y Obstetricia

About Clinica e Investigacion en Ginecologia y Obstetricia

Clínica e Investigación en Ginecología y Obstetricia — A Researched Profile

Clínica e Investigación en Ginecología y Obstetricia — in English, roughly, Clinical Practice and Research in Gynaecology and Obstetrics — is a Spanish medical journal in gynaecology, obstetrics and reproductive medicine, published in Spain by Elsevier España S.L.U. It carries the print ISSN 0210-573X and the electronic ISSN 1578-9349, and its articles are identified by DOIs in Elsevier's j.gine series (for example, 10.1016/j.gine.2022.100776). For more than four decades of Scopus-recorded coverage — aggregators list continuous coverage from 1976 to the present — it has served as a working clinical journal for Spanish-speaking specialists: a place where hospital departments in Spain and Latin America publish the audits, case series, trials and reviews that arise from daily practice in women's health.

This profile is based first on the publisher's own description of the journal on ScienceDirect and on the journal's published articles as they appear on Elsevier's Spanish platform, supported by OpenAlex data resolved directly from both of the journal's ISSNs and by SCImago-based secondary listings, each attributed where used. Where a point could not be verified from those sources, the profile says so.

Identity at a Glance

• Title: Clínica e Investigación en Ginecología y Obstetricia (rendered without accents in this directory as Clinica e Investigacion en Ginecologia y Obstetricia)
• Print ISSN: 0210-573X
• Electronic ISSN: 1578-9349
• Publisher: Elsevier España S.L.U., Spain
• Languages: Spanish and English — the journal states that it accepts articles in both
• Subject categories (SCImago): Obstetrics and Gynecology; Reproductive Medicine
• Recorded Scopus coverage: 1976 to the present, per SCImago-based listings
• Frequency: four issues a year, per secondary journal directories
• DOI pattern: 10.1016/j.gine followed by year and article number
• Article sections named by the publisher: Originals, Joint Reviews, Case Reports / Iconography, among others

A note on this directory's own record: its stored publisher field reads simply as a number, "2783", which is not a publisher. The publisher is Elsevier España S.L.U., as printed on the journal's own articles — recent papers carry the line "© Elsevier España, S.L.U." alongside the print ISSN — and the country field on the record, Spain, is correct.

The Journal and Its Setting

Elsevier's own aims-and-scope text explains the journal by describing the modern specialty it serves. In gynaecology, it names three fundamental areas: the early detection of gynaecological disease, through cytological testing and endometrial aspiration; optimised family-planning methods; and the treatment of sterility and infertility. In obstetrics, it points to ever more sophisticated pregnancy-monitoring techniques, which have redefined the care of the mother–baby pair and turned obstetrics into a fully scientific discipline. The journal, the publisher says, brings together the latest advances in its various forms — Originals, Joint Reviews, Case Reports and Iconography among them — and aims to be an up-to-date source of information for specialists and for physicians in training in the field.

That self-description fits the content a reader actually finds in its pages. The journal is a generalist within its specialty: it is not confined to a single subspecialty such as oncology or fetal medicine, and its tables of contents move across the whole working life of a gynaecology and obstetrics department, from contraception consultations to delivery-suite emergencies to gynaecological cancer follow-up. Its longevity matters here. A journal whose Scopus coverage reaches back to 1976 carries, in its back file, a longitudinal record of how Spanish obstetric and gynaecological practice has changed — the arrival of routine ultrasound, of assisted reproduction, of minimally invasive surgery, and of modern screening programmes all pass through journals of exactly this kind, documented at the time by the clinicians doing the work.

The readership geography is the Spanish-speaking medical world. Elsevier España publishes from Spain, and the journal's author base, as visible in its recent articles, extends well beyond Spain to Latin America and to international teams publishing in Spanish or English — including, for example, randomised work from Iranian university hospitals published in its pages in English. That combination — a national publisher, a shared professional language, and an international author pool — is characteristic of the stronger Spanish-language medical journals.

Aims and Scope in Practice

Reading across recent volumes shows how the publisher's scope statement plays out in practice. The main strands are:

• Pregnancy, labour and delivery. Studies of labour induction and cervical ripening — one published randomised trial tested adding isosorbide mononitrate to misoprostol for cervical ripening in post-term pregnancy, measuring time to ripening and total misoprostol required; work on instrumental delivery, including a retrospective cohort study of what changed when a maneuverable vacuum-extractor cup was introduced in a centre previously using forceps and spatulas; and analyses of caesarean practice and its risk factors.
• Maternal medicine and perinatal outcomes. A long-running interest in maternal mortality is illustrated by a study building a registry of maternal deaths at a tertiary hospital across 1991–2007, analysing causes and proposing corrective measures; more recent work includes a prevalence study of maternal anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic and outcome studies of monochorionic twin pregnancies conceived by assisted reproduction.
• Gynaecological diagnosis and surgery. Diagnostic-accuracy work such as a five-year evaluation of the IOTA-ADNEX model for discriminating adnexal masses, taking menopausal status into account; surgical case material including the rare emergency of intestinal evisceration through the vagina and its definitive repair; and best-practice recommendations, for instance on genetic diagnosis after spontaneous abortion or pregnancy termination for congenital defects.
• Reproductive medicine and contraception. True to the publisher's named priorities — family planning and the treatment of sterility and infertility — the journal carries work on contraception choices after voluntary termination of pregnancy in women of advanced maternal age, and on fertility-related topics across the reproductive lifespan.
• Clinical communication in two languages. Articles appear with Spanish and English abstracts as standard, and full texts in either language, which makes the journal usable both as a Spanish-language clinical record and as a source that international systematic reviewers can screen.

Two features of this scope deserve emphasis. First, the journal welcomes the study designs that dominate real departmental research — retrospective cohorts, case series, registries and audits — alongside trials, which makes it a realistic home for clinician-led research that might struggle at larger international titles. Second, its case-report and iconography tradition preserves unusual clinical material — rare malformations, syndromes and surgical findings — that larger journals increasingly decline, and which retains teaching value long after publication.

Publisher and Editorial Arrangements

The publisher is Elsevier España S.L.U., the Spanish arm of Elsevier, and the journal sits on Elsevier's platforms in the standard way: a journal home on ScienceDirect carrying its aims and scope and guide for authors, and the Elsevier España website (elsevier.es) carrying the journal's issues and articles in Spanish, with PDFs identified by the print ISSN in their article codes. Copyright lines on published articles confirm the arrangement directly: articles from 2021 onward carry "© Published by Elsevier España, S.L.U." or the equivalent in Spanish, and some recent articles are published under a Creative Commons BY licence with the authors holding copyright — evidence that the journal operates a hybrid model in which individual articles can appear open access even though the journal as a whole is a subscription title.

A current editor-in-chief name and full board roster are not stated in this profile: board listings on third-party sites for this journal could not be verified against the publisher's own current pages at the time of checking, and naming editors from unverified aggregator data would risk attributing roles to the wrong people. Authors who need the current board — for example, to judge a special issue or to declare a conflict — should take it from the journal's own masthead on Elsevier's platforms.

Metrics and Indexing

OpenAlex. Resolving either ISSN — print 0210-573X or electronic 1578-9349 — through OpenAlex returns the same single source record (OpenAlex source S2898269245), which is exactly what a healthy bibliographic record should do. At the time of checking, that record carried 1,483 works and 1,114 citations, a summary h-index of 7, a two-year mean citedness of about 0.19, host organisation Elsevier BV and country Spain; a direct fetch of the source ID returned identical figures. OpenAlex's topic assignment for the journal — gynaecological conditions and treatments, pregnancy and pre-eclampsia studies, maternal and perinatal health interventions, uterine myomas, and ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment — matches the scope described above. Its yearly counts show a living journal: roughly fifty works a year in recent years, with records already accumulating for the current year at the time of checking.

SCImago and Scopus-based listings. The SCImago-derived figures paint a similar picture from a different corpus. Aggregators report an h-index of 8, a CiteScore of 0.3, and SJR values that vary by the year consulted — figures around 0.117 to 0.139 appear in different secondary listings — with the journal placed in the fourth quartile in both of its categories, Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Medicine. The JournalsWorld record likewise stores an h-index of 8. The small differences between OpenAlex (h-index 7) and SCImago (h-index 8) are the expected result of different underlying databases and update dates, not evidence that either is wrong; figures should always be quoted with their source and year.

Indexing. SCImago-based listings report indexing in Scopus and Embase and placement in Clarivate's Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI). The ESCI point needs care: ESCI journals are part of the Web of Science Core Collection, but a Journal Impact Factor in the traditional Journal Citation Reports sense historically did not accompany ESCI listing, and no verified Clarivate impact-factor figure for this journal is claimed in this profile. A search of the DOAJ database by both ISSNs returned no record at the time of checking, consistent with the journal's hybrid, primarily subscription character: the open-access articles in its pages are individually licensed, as the CC BY example noted above shows, rather than the journal being a fully open-access title.

What do these numbers mean for a reader? This is a specialist national-language journal with a modest international citation footprint and a durable presence in the main bibliographic databases. A citation from it is a citation in the peer-reviewed clinical literature of its specialty; its influence runs mainly through Ibero-American clinical practice rather than through high-impact international debate, and its metrics — honestly reported — reflect exactly that role.

Information for Authors

The practical facts an author needs first are these. The journal accepts articles in Spanish and English. Its named sections — Originals, Joint Reviews, Case Reports / Iconography and related formats — cover the standard range from original research through reviews to clinical cases. Submission follows Elsevier's standard route for its Spanish journals, and the guide for authors is carried on the journal's ScienceDirect home. Publication is in four issues a year according to secondary directories, with articles typically appearing online with their DOI ahead of the issue.

On charges, honesty is required. Secondary websites quote article-processing-charge figures for this journal — amounts in the region of two and a half thousand US dollars have appeared on such sites — but no APC schedule could be verified on Elsevier's own journal pages at the time of checking, and aggregator fee figures for hybrid subscription journals frequently confuse the optional open-access charge with a mandatory fee. The correct statement is that any open-access publication charge is not publicly disclosed in a form this profile could verify, and authors who want the open-access route should confirm the current charge inside the submission process itself, where Elsevier presents it directly. For the standard subscription route, no charge is asserted here.

Fit guidance follows from the scope. Strong candidates are clinically grounded studies from obstetrics and gynaecology departments — audits with a clear question, diagnostic-accuracy studies, cohort and registry analyses, well-documented case material with teaching value, and reviews that synthesise a topic for practising specialists. Work written in Spanish reaches the journal's core readership directly; work in English is accepted and broadens international reach. Authors should expect the audience to be practising specialists and trainees rather than basic-science researchers, and to write introductions and discussions that speak to clinical decisions.

Reading the Record Critically

Three cautions apply to anyone using directory data for this journal. First, the title is frequently mangled: it appears without its accents, occasionally with "Ginecologia" misspelled, and sometimes translated into English forms that are not its name. The ISSN pair is the reliable identifier — if a record does not carry 0210-573X or 1578-9349, it is not this journal. Second, metric figures travel without their sources: an "impact" number quoted for this title on an aggregator page may be a Scopus-derived score, an SJR value or an invented-looking composite, and the differences between the OpenAlex, SCImago and stored-record figures set out above show why the database must always be named. Third, the numeric publisher field on this directory's record ("2783") is a data error; the publisher is Elsevier España S.L.U., verifiable from any recent article's copyright line.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are the ISSNs of Clínica e Investigación en Ginecología y Obstetricia? Print ISSN 0210-573X; electronic ISSN 1578-9349. Both resolve in OpenAlex to the same source record, S2898269245.

Who publishes it? Elsevier España S.L.U. in Spain. The numeric value stored in this directory's publisher field is an error.

What does it publish? Original research, joint reviews, case reports and iconography across gynaecology, obstetrics and reproductive medicine — early detection of gynaecological disease, family planning, sterility and infertility treatment, pregnancy monitoring and mother–baby care, in the publisher's own framing.

In which languages can I submit? Spanish and English; the journal states that it accepts articles in both.

How is it indexed and what are its metrics? SCImago-based listings report Scopus and Embase coverage and Emerging Sources Citation Index placement, Scopus coverage from 1976, CiteScore 0.3 and an h-index of 8; OpenAlex records 1,483 works and 1,114 citations with an h-index of 7 at the time of checking. No verified Clarivate Journal Impact Factor is claimed.

Is it open access? It is primarily a subscription journal with a hybrid option: individual recent articles appear under CC BY licences, and a DOAJ search by ISSN returned no record at checking. Any open-access charge could not be verified from the publisher's own pages and should be confirmed during submission.

How often does it appear? Four issues a year, per secondary journal directories, with articles released online under their DOIs in Elsevier's j.gine series.

Why a Journal Like This One Matters

International bibliometrics reward English-language journals, and Spanish-language clinical journals are easy to underrate from the outside. That would be a mistake here. Most obstetric and gynaecological care in the Spanish-speaking world is delivered, discussed and taught in Spanish, and the evidence base that clinicians actually consult at the point of care is disproportionately the literature written in their working language. A journal that has published Spanish hospital departments' own audits, registries and case experience continuously since the 1970s holds a kind of knowledge that international titles rarely capture: how practice really works in the health systems its readers serve, with their staffing, their equipment, their referral patterns and their patient populations.

The journal's recent content shows that function clearly. A maternal-mortality registry spanning seventeen years at one hospital is not material a global journal would usually publish, yet it is precisely the material that changes practice in the region it describes, because it names local causes and local remedies. A study of anxiety among pregnant women during a national lockdown is time-stamped social and clinical history as well as research. Evaluations of diagnostic models and delivery instruments in named Spanish hospitals tell neighbouring departments what a change would involve for them. This is the classic role of the national clinical journal, and this title has performed it for long enough that its back file is itself a historical source for the specialty in Spain.

For researchers outside that world, the journal is also a reminder to search beyond English when reviewing a topic in women's health. Systematic reviews that screen only English-language sources will miss the trials, cohorts and case material held here — material that OpenAlex and Scopus make findable, and that the journal's bilingual abstracts make screenable, even for reviewers who will need translation help at the full-text stage.

Sources consulted for this profile include the journal's aims-and-scope text on ScienceDirect (Elsevier); published articles and copyright lines on the Elsevier España platform (elsevier.es), including the cervical-ripening trial (doi:10.1016/j.gine.2021.100737), the maternal-mortality registry study, the COVID-19 maternal-anxiety study (doi:10.1016/j.gine.2022.100776) and the IOTA-ADNEX evaluation; OpenAlex, resolved by both ISSNs to source S2898269245 and re-fetched directly by source ID; SCImago-based secondary listings for categories, quartiles, CiteScore, SJR and coverage; and the JournalsWorld record for this post. Bibliometric figures are quoted with their database of origin and were those returned at the time of checking.