Introduction:

The scientific production of the universities in our country is very low in part because the investigations carried out as a requirement to complete the undergraduate studies cannot be published as scientific articles, in this sense the objective was set: To characterize the investigations carried out in the School of Nursing of the Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo Catholic University, Chiclayo, Peru, between 2006 and 2020.

Material and methods:

Observational, descriptive, retrospective study that included 744 undergraduate theses in digital format from the School of Nursing of the Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo Catholic University.

Results:

83.60% of the investigations are qualitative with a case study design (63.44%); 31.26% have adults as their population; 60.48% were carried out in public and private health institutions. Only 17.20% of the theses were adapted to a scientific article and published in indexed journals, the majority in Latindex (58.59%) followed by Cuiden (32.03%).

Conclusion:

There is a large number of theses that have not yet been converted into a scientific article format, losing the opportunity to gain visibility with the scientific production of the nursing school, few were published in indexed databases, highlighting Latindex.

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