OBJECTIVE:

This work aims to show the characteristics of authorship related to the institutionality of scientific research published in Scientific Health Journals Bolivianas indexed in a database, using a descriptive design.

MATERIAL AND METHODS:

The work analyzes the characteristics of authorship and institutionalization of scientific production in the area of health published in Bolivian scientific journals indexed in bibliographic databases on the web during the period from 2008 to 2017. It is a quantitative, observational, descriptive and retrospective work; where 813 original articles published in databases that represent the entire population studied were reviewed.

RESULTS:

In most of the articles analyzed, research collaboration of authors was found, with very few individual publications. In terms of institutionality, the universities showed themselves to be at the forefront of research, with more than half of the publications, where: the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés and the Universidad Mayor de San Simón are the ones that publish the most. And within non-academic institutions, public hospitals had first place. It was also evident that health research was centralized in the departments of Cochabamba and La Paz. The foreign country that contributed the most publications to our magazine was Chile.