Gonzalez Francisco, Castro Adrian F
Department of Physiology, School of Medicine and Catedra de Telemedicina de Telefonica, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
J Telemed Telecare. 2005;11(1):23-8. doi: 10.1177/1357633X0501100106.
We searched the MEDLINE database for publications about telemedicine from 1966 to 2003. Only publications with a first institutional address in Spain and from journals listed in the JCR Science Edition 2002 were included in the study. A total of 118 publications were found. The first publication appeared in 1988 and publication output showed a sudden increase starting in 1995, reaching a maximum in 2002 with 21 publications. The number of authors per publication in non-multicentre studies ranged from 1 to 14 (median 6.5). Most authors (79%) contributed to only a single publication; 10% of authors participated in three or more publications. Most publications were full papers (88%). The most active Autonomous Community in the number of publications relative to inhabitants was Galicia (0.91 publications per 100,000 inhabitants). The Community that produced the highest absolute number of publications was Madrid (29% of the total). The mean impact factor of the journals in which the publications appeared was 0.961. Production of telemedicine publications in Spain has followed the same temporal course as has been observed worldwide. There is an unequal geographical and institutional distribution of publications. The highest production is concentrated in a few institutions and only a small number of authors show steady research activity.
我们检索了MEDLINE数据库，查找1966年至2003年期间关于远程医疗的出版物。本研究仅纳入了第一机构地址在西班牙且发表于2002年JCR科学版所列期刊的出版物。共找到118篇出版物。第一篇出版物出现在1988年，出版量从1995年开始突然增加，2002年达到最高，有21篇出版物。非多中心研究中每篇出版物的作者数量从1到14不等（中位数为6.5）。大多数作者（79%）仅参与了一篇出版物；10%的作者参与了三篇或更多出版物。大多数出版物为全文（88%）。就出版物数量与居民数量的比例而言，最活跃的自治区是加利西亚（每10万居民中有0.91篇出版物）。发表出版物绝对数量最多的自治区是马德里（占总数的29%）。这些出版物所发表期刊的平均影响因子为0.961。西班牙远程医疗出版物的产出与全球观察到的时间进程相同。出版物存在地理和机构分布不均的情况。最高产量集中在少数机构，只有少数作者表现出稳定的研究活动。
