ABS: Gagnon, A quantitative ranking of Canada's research output of original human studies for the decade 1989 to 1998.

[Gretchen Whitney]

Author's email address is amacnab at cw.bc.ca

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AU Gagnon, RE
   Macnab, AJ
   Gagnon, FA
TI A quantitative ranking of Canada's research output of original
   human studies for the decade 1989 to 1998
SO CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL
NR 15
C1 Care of Semrick L, Childrens & Womens Hlth Ctr British
   Columbia, Crit Care Unit, Rm 2L10, 4480 Oak St, Vancouver, BC
   V6H 3V4, Canada.
   Childrens & Womens Hlth Ctr British Columbia, Dept Paediat, Vancouver,
BC, Canada.
ID IMPACT; JOURNALS; BIAS
AB Background: Since 1987 research articles have been catalogued
   with the author's affiliation address in the 40 databases of
   the Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System (MEDLARS)
   of the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Md. The present
   study was conducted to examine the Canadian entries in MEDLARS
   to interpret past and future trends and to combine the MEDLARS
   demographic data with data from other sources to rank Canadian
   research output of human studies both nationally and
   internationally. Methods: The PubMed Web site of the National
   Library of Medicine was used to count medical articles archived
   in MEDLARS and published from Jan. 1, 1989, through Dec. 31,
   1998. The articles attributed to Canadian authors were compared
   by country, province, city, medical school, hospital, article
   type, journal and medical specialty. Results: During the study
   period Canadian authors contributed on average 3% (standard
   deviation [SD] 0.2%) of the worldwide MEDLARS content each
   year, which translated to a mean of 11 067 (SD 1037) articles
   per year; 49% were human studies, of which 13% were clinical or
   controlled trials, and 55% involved people aged 18 years or
   less. In total, 68% of the articles were by authors affiliated
   with Canadian medical schools; those affiliated with the
   University of Toronto accounted for the greatest number (8604),
   whereas authors affiliated with McGill University had the
   greatest rate of annual increase in the quantity published
   (8%). Over one-third (38%) of the articles appeared in Canadian
   journals. When counted by specialty, 17% of the articles were
   by authors with clinical specialties, 5% by those with surgical
   specialties and 3% by those with laboratory specialties.
   Interpretation: The annual rate of increase in research output
   for Canada was more than 3 times higher than that seen world
   wide. Canada is now ranked seventh among countries contributing
   human studies to MEDLARS. The increase indicates that Canada's
   medical schools are productive, competitive in making
   contributions to medical science and are supporting Canadian
   journals.
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EP 40
PG 4
JI Can. Med. Assoc. J.
PY 2000
PD JAN 11
VL 162
IS 1
GA 273WB
RP Macnab AJ
   Care of Semrick L, Childrens & Womens Hlth Ctr British Columbia, Crit
Care Unit, Rm 2L10, 4480 Oak St, Vancouver, BC V6H 3V4, Canada.
J9 CAN MED ASSN J
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