Contribution of Turkish Emergency Medicine to the international literature: evaluation of 15 years

[Eugene Garfield]

Contribution of Turkish Emergency Medicine to the international literature: 
evaluation of 15 years

Author(s): Cinar, O (Cinar, Orhan); Dokur, M (Dokur, Mehmet); Tezel, O (Tezel, 
Onur); Arziman, I (Arziman, Ibrahim); Acar, YA (Acar, Yahya Ayhan)
Source: ULUSAL TRAVMA VE ACIL CERRAHI DERGISI-TURKISH JOURNAL OF 
TRAUMA & EMERGENCY SURGERY  Volume: 17  Issue: 3  Pages: 248-252  DOI: 
10.5505/tjtes.2011.26879  Published: 2011  

Abstract: BACKGROUND 
The aim of this study was to present characteristics of internationally published 
articles originating from Turkish Emergency Medicine (EM) departments over the 
last 15 years. 
METHODS 
The PubMed database was searched for all articles published from 1995 to 2010 
that originated from Turkish EM departments. 
RESULTS 
A total of 514 articles were included. Of all articles, 77% (n=396) were 
published in the last five years. Publications were detected to increase at a 
rate of 6.2 articles per year. 58.7% (n=302) of the articles were published in 
non-EM journals. Advances in Therapy in the non-EM group, with 27 articles, 
and the Turkish Journal of Trauma & Emergency Surgery in the EM group, with 
48 articles, were the preferred journals. The most popular subjects were 
toxicology, at 26% (n=134), followed by trauma, at 16% (n=86). 7.7% (n=40) 
of all articles were animal studies and 6% (n=31) were randomized controlled 
trials. 
CONCLUSION 
Significant publication growth was detected related with the development of 
EM in Turkey. The preference for non-EM journals, toxicology as the most 
popular subject and the effect of university hospitals were the interesting 
results of this study. The low number of multicenter, randomized controlled 
trials and of published articles in high impact factor journals have led us to 
consider the importance of publication quality, which requires additional effort.

Language: Unspecified [Turkish]
Document Type: Article
Author Keywords: Emergency medicine; scientific publication; Turkey; 
international
KeyWords Plus: CITATION

Addresses: [Cinar, O; Tezel, O; Arziman, I; Acar, YA] Gulhane Mil Med Acad, 
Dept Emergency Med, TR-06018 Ankara, Turkey
[Dokur, M] Kilis State Hosp, Kilis, Turkey
Reprint Address: Cinar, O (reprint author), Gulhane Mil Med Acad, Dept 
Emergency Med, TR-06018 Ankara, Turkey

E-mail Address: orhancinar at yahoo.com
ISSN: 1306-696X
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