Sember Marijan, Petrak Jelka
Lijec Vjesn. 2014 Jan-Feb;136(1-2):18-21.
By searching Medline/PubMed bibliographic database we collected data on publications of two groups of PhD candidates who earned their PhD degrees at University of Zagreb Medical School in 2000 and 2010. We identifed their publications in the Croatian medical journals and separately in the Croatian language. First group of PhD candidates (y 2000) published in the Croatian journals 34% of all published papers, with a share of 29% in the Croatian language. Another group (y 2010) published in the Croatian journals 44% of all published papers in which the number of papers published in the Croatian journals in English language grow significantly (5% vs. 31%). The number of papers published in the Croatian language decreased to 13%. Our results agreed with the global decreasing trend of the number of medical papers in non-English languages. The importance of mother-tongue in the medical education and health care may have influence on preserving scientific communication in non-English medical journals.
通过检索Medline/PubMed文献数据库，我们收集了两组于2000年和2010年在萨格勒布大学医学院获得博士学位的博士生的发表数据。我们确定了他们在克罗地亚医学期刊上以及分别用克罗地亚语发表的论文。第一组博士生（2000年）在克罗地亚期刊上发表了所有发表论文的34%，用克罗地亚语发表的占29%。另一组（2010年）在克罗地亚期刊上发表了所有发表论文的44%，其中用英语在克罗地亚期刊上发表的论文数量显著增加（从5%增至31%）。用克罗地亚语发表的论文数量降至13%。我们的结果与非英语医学论文数量的全球下降趋势一致。母语在医学教育和医疗保健中的重要性可能会对非英语医学期刊中科学交流的保留产生影响。
