Mayir Burhan, Bilecik Tuna, Çakır Tuğrul, Doğan Uğur, Gündüz Umut Rıza, Aslaner Arif, Oruç Mehmet Tahir
Clinic of General Surgery, Antalya Training and Research Hospital, Antalya, Turkey.
Turk J Surg. 2016 Oct 27;33(1):33-36. doi: 10.5152/UCD.2016.3190. eCollection 2017.
A dissertation is a scientific document. However, if it is not published in a scientific journal, it will gain access to only a limited audience and thus will be unable to achieve its objective. Nevertheless, the rate of publishing in journals is not high among dissertations. In this study, we aimed to investigate the publishing rates of general surgery dissertations in journals and the total number of citations.
All medical dissertations that have been prepared at general surgery departments of university hospitals and presented between the years 2006 and 2008 were analyzed. The authors checked whether the dissertations were published in a journal or not, by searching the dissertation in 4 different resources with the name of their authors.
Two hundred and thirty-two dissertations were included. Half of those dissertations were experimental animal studies. Seventy dissertations were published in various journals. Fifty one (22%) of these were published in Science Citation Index Expanded journals, while 19 (8.1%) of them were published in Turkish non-Science Citation Index Expanded journals. There was no significant difference in terms of publishing rates between study types. The number of annual citations per article was 1.1. The writer of the dissertation was the first author in 35 (68,6%) articles.
The publishing rates of dissertations in general surgery is low, with only 22% being published in Science Citation Index Expanded journals. The citation rate was also detected to be low in our study. Consequently, a dissertation should be considered as a scientific research study and planned as such, not as obligatory assignments. The publishing rates of dissertations should be increased, and authors should be led and encouraged to publish their dissertations.
学位论文是一种科学文献。然而，如果它未在科学期刊上发表，其受众将极为有限，从而无法实现其目标。尽管如此，学位论文在期刊上的发表率并不高。在本研究中，我们旨在调查普通外科领域学位论文的期刊发表率及总被引次数。
分析了2006年至2008年间在大学医院普通外科撰写并提交的所有医学学位论文。作者通过在4种不同资源中按作者姓名搜索学位论文，来核查这些论文是否在期刊上发表。
共纳入232篇学位论文。其中一半为实验动物研究。70篇学位论文在各类期刊上发表。其中51篇（22%）发表于《科学引文索引扩展版》期刊，19篇（8.1%）发表于土耳其非《科学引文索引扩展版》期刊。研究类型之间的发表率无显著差异。每篇文章的年被引次数为1.1次。35篇（68.6%）文章的第一作者为学位论文作者。
普通外科领域学位论文的发表率较低，仅有22%发表于《科学引文索引扩展版》期刊。在我们的研究中也检测到被引率较低。因此，应将学位论文视为一项科研研究并按此进行规划，而非仅仅作为规定任务。应提高学位论文的发表率，并引导和鼓励作者发表其学位论文。
