Lin Ming-Hwai, Hwang Shinn-Jang, Hwang I-Hsuan, Chen Yu-Chun
Department of Family Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC; Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC.
Department of Family Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC; Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC.
J Chin Med Assoc. 2014 Nov;77(11):583-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jcma.2014.05.015. Epub 2014 Sep 18.
Academic publications are important for developing a medical specialty or discipline. Since family medicine is a rapidly growing medical specialty in Taiwan, this study aimed to analyze family medicine publications from 1993 to 2012 in Taiwan using the Web of Science database.
Published academic articles submitted from departments/institutes of family medicine were retrieved and analyzed from the Web of Science database, which includes articles published in the Science Citation Index-Expanded and Social Science Citation Indexed journals from 1993 to 2012.
Among 33,073 published articles submitted from the departments/institutes of family medicine worldwide during the years 1993-2012, 1552 articles (4.69%) were submitted from Taiwan, ranking fourth in the world after the USA, Canada, and Sweden. In total, 1409 articles from Taiwan, excluding meeting abstracts and corrections, were selected for further analyses. During these two decades, family medicine publications increased rapidly. There were 60 articles published during 1993-1997, 180 articles during 1998-2002, 334 articles during 2003-2007, and up to 836 articles during 2008-2012. However, the mean citation number of articles decreased from 19.0 to 17.7, 15.1, and 3.8, and the mean impact factor of published journals decreased from 3.41 to 3.15, 2.78 and 2.82 during the periods 1993-1997, 1998-2002, 2003-2007, and 2008-2012, respectively. Most articles belonged to the subject category of the Medicine, General and Internal category (194 articles, 13.8%), followed by Public Environmental Occupational Health (144 articles, 10.2%), Oncology (126 articles, 9.2%), Endocrinology Metabolism (111 articles, 7.9%), Geriatrics Gerontology (99 articles, 7.0%), and the Gastroenterology Hepatology category (85 articles, 6.0%). However, only six articles (0.4%) were published in the Primary Health Care category.
Publications from departments/institutes of family medicine in Taiwan increased rapidly from 1993 to 2012. However, the trends of decreased citation number of articles and journal impact factor, as well as the small amount of articles published in the Primary Health Care Category, deserve further attention and effort.
学术出版物对于医学专科或学科的发展至关重要。由于家庭医学在台湾是一个快速发展的医学专科，本研究旨在使用科学网数据库分析1993年至2012年台湾地区的家庭医学出版物。
从科学网数据库中检索并分析家庭医学系/研究所提交的已发表学术文章，该数据库包括1993年至2012年发表在《科学引文索引扩展版》和《社会科学引文索引》期刊上的文章。
在1993 - 2012年期间，全球家庭医学系/研究所提交的33,073篇已发表文章中，有1552篇（4.69%）来自台湾，位居世界第四，仅次于美国、加拿大和瑞典。总共选取了1409篇来自台湾的文章（不包括会议摘要和勘误）进行进一步分析。在这二十年中，家庭医学出版物迅速增加。1993 - 1997年发表了60篇文章，1998 - 2002年发表了180篇文章，2003 - 2007年发表了334篇文章，2008 - 2012年多达836篇文章。然而，文章的平均被引次数在1993 - 1997年、1998 - 2002年、2003 - 2007年和2008 - 2012年期间分别从19.0降至17.7、15.1和3.8，发表期刊的平均影响因子分别从3.41降至3.15、2.78和2.82。大多数文章属于医学综合与内科类别（194篇，13.8%）,其次是公共环境与职业健康（144篇，10.2%）、肿瘤学（126篇，9.2%）、内分泌与代谢（111篇，7.9%）、老年医学（99篇，7.0%）以及胃肠病学与肝病学类别（85篇，6.0%）。然而，仅有六篇文章（0.4%）发表在初级卫生保健类别。
1993年至2012年台湾地区家庭医学系/研究所的出版物迅速增加。然而，文章被引次数和期刊影响因子下降的趋势，以及初级卫生保健类别发表文章数量较少的情况，值得进一步关注和努力。
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