Ramos J M, Masía M, Padilla S, Gutiérrez F
Infectious Diseases Unit, Internal Medicine Department, Hospital General Universitario de Elche, Camí de L'Almazara 11, Elche, 03203, Alicante, Spain.
Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 2009 Jun;28(6):713-6. doi: 10.1007/s10096-008-0691-3. Epub 2009 Jan 13.
This study analyses the distribution of papers published by authors from the European Union (EU) in 47 international infectious diseases journals from 2002 to 2007. The Web of Science of the Institute for Scientific Information was used to collect medical articles. From 46,149 papers recovered, 24,064 (52.1%) were from the EU. The EU15 countries published 23,239 papers (96.7%). The ten countries that joined the EU in 2004 published only 767 (3.2%) and the two countries that last joined the EU in 2007 contributed only 0.1% of the papers. The United States contributed 41.2% of the documents. The leading EU27 countries in number of publications were the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. After taking the population into account, Denmark, Sweden, and The Netherlands headed the list, and after correcting for gross domestic product the greatest producers were Malta, Estonia, and Sweden. In conclusion, the production of scientific papers on infectious diseases during the last six years was greater in the EU than in the United States. The contribution to the infectious diseases research of the 12 countries that joined the EU in the last few years has yet been limited.
本研究分析了2002年至2007年期间欧盟（EU）作者在47种国际传染病期刊上发表论文的分布情况。使用科学信息研究所的《科学引文索引》收集医学文章。在检索到的46149篇论文中，24064篇（52.1%）来自欧盟。欧盟15国发表了23239篇论文（96.7%）。2004年加入欧盟的10个国家仅发表了767篇（3.2%），2007年最后加入欧盟的两个国家仅贡献了0.1%的论文。美国贡献了41.2%的文献。发表论文数量领先的欧盟27国是英国、法国和德国。考虑人口因素后，丹麦、瑞典和荷兰位居榜首，校正国内生产总值后，产量最高的是马耳他、爱沙尼亚和瑞典。总之，过去六年中欧盟在传染病科学论文的产出方面高于美国。过去几年加入欧盟的12个国家对传染病研究的贡献仍然有限。
