Dipartimento di Scienze Neurologiche e del Movimento, Università di Verona, Policlinico Bgo Roma, Verona, Italy,
Neurol Sci. 2014 Mar;35(3):437-42. doi: 10.1007/s10072-013-1553-z. Epub 2013 Sep 26.
Quantifying the number of publications is the easiest way to estimate the scientific production of a country in any scientific field. The aim of this article is to provide information about the scientific production from 2008 to 2011 of Italian neurologists and to compare it with scientific production data of other countries. The analysis regarded the research in Web of Science, in the Subject Category Clinical Neurology, of the publications published from 2008 to 2011, with at least one Italian author belonging to a scientific Italian institution. The overall data, their quality and scientific impact were compared with those of the first 15 world countries for scientific production. We observed that even if the Gross National Product of Italy registered a slight and gradual reduction from 2008 to 2011, the neurological scientific production of Italian neurologists showed an increase in the number of papers, maintaining the fifth position in these four years after USA, Germany, England and Japan. Moreover, dividing the neurological journals in quartiles according to the impact factor, we observed constant increase of the numbers of Italian publications in the highest quartile journals during the considered period. These data suggest that from 2008 to 2011 Italian neurologists have increased the number of publications, also improving the quality of works.
量化出版物的数量是估算任何科学领域一个国家的科学产出的最简便方法。本文旨在提供 2008 年至 2011 年意大利神经病学家的科学产出信息，并将其与其他国家的科学产出数据进行比较。分析涉及在 Web of Science 中 Subject Category Clinical Neurology 中，对 2008 年至 2011 年发表的至少有一位意大利作者隶属于意大利科研机构的出版物进行研究。将整体数据、其质量和科学影响力与世界前 15 个科学产出国家的数据进行比较。我们观察到，尽管意大利的国民生产总值从 2008 年到 2011 年略有下降，但意大利神经病学家的神经科学产出在论文数量上有所增加，在这四年中保持了仅次于美国、德国、英国和日本的第五位。此外，根据影响因子将神经科期刊分为四等份，我们观察到在考虑期间意大利出版物在最高四分位数期刊中的数量持续增加。这些数据表明，2008 年至 2011 年，意大利神经病学家增加了出版物的数量，同时也提高了作品的质量。
