Mendis Kumara, Bailey Jannine, McLean Rick
University of Western Sydney - Bathurst Rural Clinical School, New South Wales.
Wangaratta Cardiology and Respiratory Centre, Victoria.
Aust N Z J Public Health. 2015 Jun;39(3):227-31. doi: 10.1111/1753-6405.12366. Epub 2015 Apr 22.
To assess Australian health and medical research (HMR) investment returns by measuring the trends in HMR expenditure and PubMed publications by Australian authors.
Bibliometric analysis collating Australian HMR expenditure reported by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and Australian HMR publications indexed in PubMed. Similar methods were applied to data from the United Kingdom and New Zealand.
From financial year 2000/01 through 2011/12, HMR investment increased by 232% from $1.49 to $4.94 billion (current prices adjusted for inflation), while PubMed publications increased by 123% from 10,696 to 23,818. The average HMR investment required for a single PubMed publication rose by 49% from $139,304 in 2000/01 to $207,364 in 2011/12. Quality analyses showed an increase in systematic reviews, cohort studies and clinical trials, and a decrease in publications in PubMed's core clinical journal collection. Comparisons with New Zealand and the United Kingdom showed that Australia has had the greatest overall percentage increase in gross publication numbers and publications per capita.
Our analyses confirm that increased HMR expenditure is associated with an increase in HMR publications in PubMed.
Tracking HMR investment outcomes using this method could be useful for future policy and funding decisions at a federal and specific institution level.
通过衡量澳大利亚作者的健康与医学研究（HMR）支出趋势以及PubMed上的出版物数量，评估澳大利亚健康与医学研究的投资回报。
文献计量分析，整理澳大利亚卫生与福利研究所报告的澳大利亚HMR支出以及PubMed中索引的澳大利亚HMR出版物。对来自英国和新西兰的数据应用类似方法。
从2000/01财政年度到2011/12财政年度，HMR投资增长了232%，从14.9亿澳元增至49.4亿澳元（按通货膨胀调整后的现价），而PubMed上的出版物数量增长了123%，从10696篇增至23818篇。每篇PubMed出版物所需的平均HMR投资从2000/01年度的139304澳元增至2011/12年度的207364澳元，增长了49%。质量分析显示系统评价、队列研究和临床试验有所增加，而PubMed核心临床期刊集中的出版物有所减少。与新西兰和英国的比较表明，澳大利亚的总出版物数量和人均出版物数量的总体百分比增长最大。
我们的分析证实，HMR支出增加与PubMed上HMR出版物数量增加相关。
使用这种方法跟踪HMR投资结果可能有助于未来联邦和特定机构层面的政策和资金决策。
