Dermatology Department, University Hospital of Coventry and Warwickshire, Coventry, UK.
Clin Exp Dermatol. 2010 Dec;35(8):910-3. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2230.2010.03816.x.
For some time, there has been a suspicion that the number of articles published by UK-based authors in dermatology has declined. This probably reflects a reduction in the publication output of dermatology departments generally.
We identified articles with British authorship in the British Journal of Dermatology between 1970 and the present date, and compared the journal with the three most commonly cited dermatological journals: Archives of Dermatology, Journal of Investigative Dermatology and Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. Later, we expanded this search to include a further 33 dermatological journals.
Despite an increase in the total number of published papers by the British Journal of Dermatology, there was a decline in the number of British-authored papers, from 97 (57%) in 1970 to 80 (22%) in 2005. The trend was also seen in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, with 16 papers (5%) in 1989 and 7 (2%) in 2005. In Journal of Investigative Dermatology, British papers increased from 10 papers in 1975 to 17 in 2005, with a percentage decrease from 7% to 4%. Overall, despite an increase in the total number of publications in dermatological journals from 2745 in 1985-5034 in 2005, British publications increased from 271 in 1989 to only 289 in 2005, which represents a percentage decrease from 10% to 6%.
Despite a three-fold increase in dermatology consultants and registrars in UK, a three-fold increase in dermatological journals and a four-fold increase in dermatological papers published, the overall number of British papers has remained static over the years.
有一段时间以来，人们一直怀疑英国作者在皮肤科发表的文章数量有所下降。这可能反映了皮肤科部门的出版产出普遍减少。
我们在《英国皮肤病学杂志》（British Journal of Dermatology）中确定了 1970 年至目前为止有英国作者的文章，并将该杂志与三种最常被引用的皮肤科杂志：《皮肤病学文献集》（Archives of Dermatology）、《皮肤病学研究杂志》（Journal of Investigative Dermatology）和《美国皮肤病学会杂志》（Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology）进行了比较。后来，我们将这一搜索范围扩大到包括另外 33 种皮肤科杂志。
尽管《英国皮肤病学杂志》（British Journal of Dermatology）发表的论文总数有所增加，但英国作者的论文数量却有所下降，从 1970 年的 97 篇（占 57%）下降到 2005 年的 80 篇（占 22%）。这一趋势也出现在《美国皮肤病学会杂志》（Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology）中，1989 年有 16 篇（占 5%），2005 年有 7 篇（占 2%）。在《皮肤病学研究杂志》（Journal of Investigative Dermatology）中，英国论文从 1975 年的 10 篇增加到 2005 年的 17 篇，所占比例从 7%下降到 4%。总体而言，尽管皮肤科杂志的总出版物数量从 1985 年的 2745 篇增加到 2005 年的 5034 篇，但英国出版物从 1989 年的 271 篇增加到 2005 年的 289 篇，所占比例从 10%下降到 6%。
尽管英国皮肤科顾问和住院医师增加了两倍，皮肤科杂志增加了两倍，皮肤科论文增加了三倍，但多年来英国论文的总数一直保持不变。
