Mela Giuseppe Sandro, Mancardi Gian Luigi
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genova, Italy.
J Neurol. 2002 Apr;249(4):390-5. doi: 10.1007/s004150200027.
This paper analyses all the peer-reviewed articles published by European authors in 161 neurological journals screened by ISI in accordance with Current Contents/Life Science and Current Contents/Clinical Medicine in the period 1995-1998. Our aim was to report the amount and quality of neurological research in the different countries of the European Union (EU), the USA and the world. The number of papers, the impact factors (IF), the population of the source country and gross domestic product (GDP), were downloaded. Data show that in the EU there is a progressive increase in the number of published papers from 1995 to 1998 and that large countries such as Germany, the United Kingdom, France and Italy rank at the top four places for absolute number of papers. The gap in the number of papers between the USA and the EU significantly diminished in the examined period, from a difference of 14 % to 6 %. However, when the IF is considered, the USA performed better than EU, although excellent results have been obtained by the United Kingdom, Ireland, Netherlands and Sweden. When the number and quality of papers are plotted against the number of inhabitants or GDP, Sweden, the Netherlands and Finland are the leading countries in Europe. The present study demonstrates that neurological research in the EU is active and productive, is steadily increasing and is now a relevant part of all biomedical world research.
本文分析了1995 - 1998年期间欧洲作者在被ISI按照《现刊目次/生命科学》和《现刊目次/临床医学》筛选的161种神经学期刊上发表的所有经同行评审的文章。我们的目的是报告欧盟不同国家、美国以及世界范围内神经学研究的数量和质量。下载了论文数量、影响因子（IF）、来源国人口和国内生产总值（GDP）的数据。数据显示，在欧盟，1995年至1998年发表的论文数量呈逐步上升趋势，德国、英国、法国和意大利等大国在论文绝对数量上排名前四位。在考察期内，美国和欧盟之间的论文数量差距显著缩小，从相差14%降至6%。然而，考虑影响因子时，美国的表现优于欧盟，尽管英国、爱尔兰、荷兰和瑞典也取得了优异成绩。当将论文数量和质量与居民数量或GDP进行对比时，瑞典、荷兰和芬兰是欧洲的领先国家。本研究表明，欧盟的神经学研究活跃且富有成效，正在稳步增长，现已成为全球生物医学研究的重要组成部分。
