Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
ECOOM and Department of Managerial Economics, Strategy and Innovation, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
J Am Coll Cardiol. 2018 Apr 10;71(14):1584-1589. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2018.01.073.
The concern about predominance of basic discovery research and lack of translation into clinical medicine, and segregation between these research communities, led the authors to study these research communities through mapping networks of publications and cross-references. Cardiovascular research from 1993 to 2013 was published in 565 journals, including 104 new journals. Only 50% were published in core cardiovascular journals, such as the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, whereas one-half of cardiovascular publications were found in broader biomedical/multidisciplinary journals. The growth of the clinical journal community and merging into one broad journal community suggests a decreasing dichotomy between basic/preclinical and clinical research, potentially contributing to bridging the translational gap.
人们担心基础发现研究占主导地位，而缺乏向临床医学的转化，以及这些研究群体之间的隔离，这促使作者通过绘制出版物和交叉引用网络来研究这些研究群体。1993 年至 2013 年的心血管研究发表在 565 种期刊上，其中包括 104 种新期刊。仅有 50%发表在核心心血管期刊，如《美国心脏病学会杂志》，而一半的心血管出版物则发表在更广泛的生物医学/多学科期刊上。临床期刊社区的增长和合并为一个广泛的期刊社区表明，基础/临床前和临床研究之间的二分法正在减少，这可能有助于缩小转化差距。
