沙特阿拉伯过去十年肾病学出版物的影响。

Impact of Nephrology publications from Saudi Arabia in the last decade.

作者信息

Al-Khader Abdulla A, Al-Jondeby Mohamed S, Shaheen Faissal A

机构信息

Department of Nephrology, Armed Forces Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

出版信息

Saudi Med J. 2002 Oct;23(10):1177-80.

PMID:12436118

Abstract

OBJECTIVE

To study the present situation with regards to the research output in Nephrology from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) in terms of numbers, type, institution and fields covered.

METHODS

An extensive Medline search of Nephrologists working in KSA, as well research output from KSA was undertaken; in addition, all Nephrologists were contacted. All papers appearing in the Saudi Medical Journal, Annals of Saudi Medicine and The Saudi Journal for Kidney Diseases and Transplantation were screened for the years 1992-2001.

RESULTS

An average of 45 papers per year appeared over the last 10 years with no major changes over the years. Half were in the indexed Journals. Whereas, 61% were original articles, the majority of the papers (78.2%) were retrospective in nature and 89.9% were clinical. The majority were concerned with transplantation (34.1%) and hemodialysis (24.4%). It is of interest to note that KSA leads other Arab countries in the number of publications in Nephrology and it has a highest total percentage of medical publications compared to other Arab, and Asian countries as well as the United Kingdom, Canada and United States of America.

CONCLUSION

Although KSA is leading the Arab countries in renal research, much improvement is still required especially in basic research.

摘要

目的

从数量、类型、机构和涵盖领域方面研究沙特阿拉伯王国（KSA）肾脏病学的研究产出现状。

方法

对在KSA工作的肾脏病学家进行广泛的医学索引数据库（Medline）检索，并检索来自KSA的研究产出；此外，还联系了所有肾脏病学家。对1992 - 2001年发表在《沙特医学杂志》《沙特医学年鉴》和《沙特肾脏病与移植杂志》上的所有论文进行筛选。

结果

在过去10年中，平均每年发表45篇论文，多年来没有重大变化。其中一半发表在被索引的期刊上。虽然61%是原创文章，但大多数论文（78.2%）本质上是回顾性的，89.9%是临床研究。大多数论文涉及移植（34.1%）和血液透析（24.4%）。值得注意的是，KSA在肾脏病学领域的出版物数量领先于其他阿拉伯国家，与其他阿拉伯国家、亚洲国家以及英国、加拿大和美国相比，其医学出版物的总百分比最高。