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The objective of the present study has been to carry out a review of the published works that have studied cannabis/marijuana and tobacco co-use in pregnant women and the possible consequences on their offspring The sources of information the databases used were the Web of Science (WoS), Scielo and Medline. A total of 240 articles were recovered, of which only 16 met the inclusion requirements in this study. The results point to a psychosocial profile of risk in pregnant women with dual consumption cannabis-tobacco and effects of co-use of these substances on fetal development according to different parameters, such as head circumference, weight and length at birth, prematurity, gestational age and defects in the newborn, among others. However, there are no differences in the scores in the Apgar test, hypertension, gestational diabetes or medicalization of the baby delivery. Cannabis-tobacco co-use has an additive effect with respect to some indicators of fetal development. Preventive interventions are required different levels when dealing with cannabis-tobacco co-use in pregnant women, considering this a major public health problem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this descriptive work was to analyse the presence of researchers that work in Spanish institutions and are part of the editorial committees and directive boards of Ibero-American journals of Psychology indexed in the database Journal Citation Reports (JCR 2012). A total of 22 journals were analysed. The results demonstrate that researchers from 39 different countries are part of directing committees and council in these journals. Out of these, 45.2% are Spanish. Spanish researchers are mainly part of psychology journals edited in Spain, Colombia and Argentina. Universities are the institutional sector were 97% of the Spanish researchers work and that are included in the psychology journals committee, being the Universidad de Valencia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, those that have a greater number of researchers collaborating with these publications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]