University Medical Centre, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Fam Pract. 2010 Oct;27(5):582-9. doi: 10.1093/fampra/cmq032. Epub 2010 Jun 16.
The discipline of family medicine (FM) lacks a comprehensive methodology, which can be applied as a standard for assessing overall research output in both the field of FM and by general practitioners (GPs)/general practice institutions. It was the aim of this study to develop a sensitive search strategy for assessing publication output in the field of FM independent of the author's profession or affiliation and by GPs/general practice institutions independent of their field of scientific interest.
Literature searches limited to the year 2005 were conducted in PubMed and ISI Web of Sciences (ISI WoS). In PubMed, all relevant MeSH terms were used. Search terms possibly contained in the author's affiliations have been collected. In ISI WoS, the same entry terms including their abbreviations and plural forms were applied. The final queries were validated by manual review and matching results with selected FM journals.
A comprehensive list of combined search terms could be defined. For the field of general practice/FM more publications could be retrieved in PubMed. Almost twice as many publications by GPs/general practice institutions could be retrieved in ISI WoS, where--in contrast to PubMed--the affiliation is documented for all authors.
To quantitatively assess publication output in the field of FM, PubMed was identified as the preferable database. To assess publication output by GPs/general practice institutions, the ISI WoS is recommended as the preferable database. Apparently, the ISI WoS is more suitable to compare the research productivity of different countries, authors or institutions.
家庭医学（FM）领域缺乏一种全面的方法，这种方法可以作为评估 FM 领域和全科医生（GP）/全科医学机构总体研究成果的标准。本研究旨在为评估 FM 领域的出版产出开发一种敏感的搜索策略，这种策略不依赖于作者的职业或所属机构，也不依赖于 GP/全科医学机构的科学兴趣领域。
在 PubMed 和 ISI Web of Sciences（ISI WoS）中进行了 2005 年限制的文献检索。在 PubMed 中，使用了所有相关的 MeSH 术语。收集了可能包含在作者所属机构中的搜索术语。在 ISI WoS 中，应用了相同的条目术语，包括其缩写和复数形式。最后通过手动检查和与选定的 FM 期刊的匹配结果对查询进行了验证。
可以定义一个综合的联合搜索词列表。在全科医学/FM 领域，PubMed 可以检索到更多的出版物。在 ISI WoS 中，可以检索到近两倍的由 GP/全科医学机构发表的出版物，其中——与 PubMed 不同——为所有作者记录了所属机构。
为了定量评估 FM 领域的出版产出，确定 PubMed 为首选数据库。为了评估 GP/全科医学机构的出版产出，建议使用 ISI WoS 作为首选数据库。显然，ISI WoS 更适合比较不同国家、作者或机构的研究生产力。
