Cevik Erdem, Karakus Yilmaz Banu, Acar Yahya Ayhan, Dokur Mehmet
Van Military Hospital, Van, Turkey.
Department of Emergency Medicine, Bagcilar Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
Turk J Emerg Med. 2016 Mar 2;15(1):28-32. doi: 10.5505/1304.7361.2014.37074. eCollection 2015 Mar.
The aim of this study is to systematically evaluate the theses in the field of emergency medicine in Turkey and to determine whether they were published as a scientific paper.
This is a retrospective observational study. Theses in the field of emergency medicine between 1998 and 2013 were browsed from the internet database of National Thesis Center (Council of Higher Education). Study type, both if it was in the field of emergency, or if it was published and the journal's scope of published studies were assessed and recorded in the study chart.
579 theses were included in the study. 27.1% of them were published and 14.9% of them were published in SCI/SCI-E journals. Advisors of theses were emergency medicine specialists in 67.6% of theses and 493 (85.1%) of them were in the field of emergency medicine. 77.4% of theses were observational and 20.9% were experimental study. Most of the experimental studies (72.7%, n=88) were animal studies.
It was concluded that very few theses in the field of emergency medicine were published in journals that were indexed in SCI/SCI-E.
本研究旨在系统评估土耳其急诊医学领域的论文，并确定这些论文是否作为科学论文发表。
这是一项回顾性观察研究。从国家论文中心（高等教育委员会）的互联网数据库中浏览1998年至2013年间急诊医学领域的论文。对研究类型（是否属于急诊领域、是否发表以及发表研究的期刊范围）进行评估并记录在研究图表中。
579篇论文纳入本研究。其中27.1%已发表，14.9%发表于SCI/SCI-E期刊。67.6%的论文导师为急诊医学专家，其中493篇（85.1%）属于急诊医学领域。77.4%的论文为观察性研究，20.9%为实验性研究。大多数实验性研究（72.7%，n = 88）为动物研究。
得出的结论是，急诊医学领域极少有论文发表在被SCI/SCI-E索引的期刊上。
