Ugolini D, Casilli C, Mela G S
CilNews Group,Universita' di, Genoa, Italy.
Eur J Cancer. 2002 May;38(8):1121-5. doi: 10.1016/s0959-8049(02)00025-4.
This work analyses the distribution of oncological papers published in 1995 by authors from the European Union (EU) in any journal of all the Subject Categories of the Science Citation Index compiled by ISI (Institute for Scientific Information, Philadelphia, USA) and is based on the country of origin of all of the contributors. The study compares the results with those of a previous study dealing with publications in journals of the ISI Oncology Category based on the country of origin of the corresponding author. The aim of the study was to compare two different methods used to evaluate research productivity in order to understand the extent to which the results are influenced by the methodology adopted. Data on the number of published papers for each country, ratio between the number of occurrences of papers and country population and gross domestic product (GDP), and mean Impact Factors (IF ) were compared. While findings on the number of published papers (United Kingdom (UK), Germany and France ranking best), source country population (Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands ranking best) and gross domestic product (Sweden, Finland and the Netherlands ranking best) showed no important changes, the mean IF value result was, for some countries, very different from the previous study. In particular, while Germany, Belgium, Portugal and France fared well, Norway, Sweden, Austria and Spain showed poorer results. Some hypotheses are advanced, and care in the scientometric interpretation of data is urged. An analysis of the journals in which EU authors published their articles was also carried out and the main SCI categories to which the journals belong are reported. As was expected, many categories other than oncology were represented (biochemistry, haematology, pathology, etc.).
这项研究分析了欧盟（EU）作者于1995年在由美国费城科学信息研究所（ISI）编制的《科学引文索引》所有学科类别的任何期刊上发表的肿瘤学论文的分布情况，且该研究基于所有作者的原籍国展开。该研究将结果与之前一项基于通讯作者原籍国对ISI肿瘤学类别期刊上发表的论文进行的研究结果进行了比较。该研究的目的是比较两种用于评估研究生产力的不同方法，以了解结果受所采用方法影响的程度。比较了每个国家发表论文的数量、论文发表数量与国家人口及国内生产总值（GDP）之间的比率，以及平均影响因子（IF）。虽然关于发表论文数量（英国、德国和法国排名最佳）、来源国人口（瑞典、丹麦和荷兰排名最佳）和国内生产总值（瑞典、芬兰和荷兰排名最佳）的研究结果没有重大变化，但一些国家的平均IF值结果与之前的研究有很大不同。特别是，德国、比利时、葡萄牙和法国表现良好，而挪威、瑞典、奥地利和西班牙的结果较差。文中提出了一些假设，并敦促在对数据进行科学计量解释时要谨慎。还对欧盟作者发表文章的期刊进行了分析，并报告了这些期刊所属的主要SCI类别。不出所料，除肿瘤学外，还有许多其他类别（生物化学、血液学、病理学等）。
