Zemni Imen, Safer Mouna, Horrigue Imen, Ben Abdelaziz Asma, Hammami Sonia, Ben Abdelaziz Ahmed
Tunis Med. 2018 Jul;96(7):411-416.
English is becoming nowadays the universal language of science. Rresearch published in English can be considered as a bibliometric indicator of the scientific productivity.
We sought to describe the evolution of the Tunisian medical publications written in English over the period from 2004 to 2014.
Medline's database was consulted using a research query associating the names of the country and the main university cities both in French and in English. The articles with a Tunisian health affiliation were retained but the articles of dentistry, pharmacy and non-medical fields were not included.
We counted 979 English language Tunisian medical articles published during the three tracer years of the study: 2004, 2009 and 2014. The increase rate was about 38% between 2004 and 2014. The contribution of medical fields in English language publications was important but showed a clear decrease over time. The retrieved articles did not have the same distribution according to the specialties and the institutions. The distribution according to the journals showed that these articles were mainly published by foreign journals with an increasing impact factors between 2004 and 2014.
The English language Tunisian medical productivity had shown an important increase over time but many specialties and institutions still not enough implicated in this production.Therefore, increasing research funding, improving the physicians' research methodology and English writing capacities are likely needed to improve the Tunisian medical output.
如今英语正成为科学的通用语言。以英文发表的研究可被视为科研生产力的一种文献计量指标。
我们试图描述2004年至2014年期间突尼斯用英文撰写的医学出版物的发展情况。
通过使用将该国名称与主要大学城市名称以法语和英语相结合的检索式查询来查阅医学期刊数据库（Medline）。保留与突尼斯卫生机构有关联的文章，但不包括牙科、药学和非医学领域的文章。
在研究的三个追踪年份（2004年、2009年和2014年）期间，我们统计了979篇突尼斯医学英文文章。2004年至2014年期间的增长率约为38%。医学领域在英文出版物中的贡献很大，但随着时间的推移明显下降。检索到的文章在专业和机构方面的分布情况不同。根据期刊的分布情况表明，这些文章主要由外国期刊发表，2004年至2014年期间其影响因子不断增加。
突尼斯医学英文产出随时间推移有了显著增长，但许多专业和机构在这一产出中的参与度仍然不足。因此，可能需要增加研究资金、提高医生的研究方法和英语写作能力，以提高突尼斯的医学产出。
