Department of Neurosurgery, Avicenne Military Hospital of Marrakech, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco; Laboratory of Biostatistics Clinical Research and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco.
World Neurosurg. 2019 Jun;126:59-65. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2019.02.122. Epub 2019 Mar 4.
Medical publications reflect the development of training, research, and health services. No objective data are available regarding neurosurgical publications from Morocco. Bibliometrics were used to evaluate the contribution of Moroccan neurosurgeons (MONSs) in neurosurgical journals worldwide and to discuss the strategies that can be applied to increase the quantity and quality of publications on this subject.
A literature search of reports by MONSs was performed using the PubMed database. The number and quality of the reports were evaluated with the impact factor of the neurosurgical journals and the h-index of each first author.
The data from 174 identified studies reported from 1989 to 2018 were analyzed. MONSs have continued to report more studies every year worldwide. However, their contribution to neurosurgical journals has been gradually declining since 2012. Scientific publishing was limited to a few great neurosurgical departments and a few academic neurosurgeons in Morocco. Most of the reports were case reports, reported in the French language, included in non-neurosurgical journals, from single centers, and without international collaboration.
Academic neurosurgeons in Morocco should prepare their residents and young researchers on research methodology and medical writing. Moroccan neurosurgical research should be more focused on modern neurosurgical topics by highlighting our particularities. More high level of evidence studies should be reported in English-language neurosurgical journals with a high impact factor and good scientific reputation. MONSs should continue to collaborate more often with each other and with foreign centers to further improve the quality and number of international publications, regardless of the difficulties they face.
医学出版物反映了培训、研究和卫生服务的发展。关于摩洛哥神经外科医生的出版物，没有客观的数据。本研究使用文献计量学来评估摩洛哥神经外科医生（MONSs）在世界范围内神经外科期刊中的贡献，并讨论可以应用的策略，以增加该主题的出版物数量和质量。
使用 PubMed 数据库对 MONSs 的报告进行文献检索。使用神经外科期刊的影响因子和每位第一作者的 h 指数评估报告的数量和质量。
分析了 1989 年至 2018 年期间报道的 174 项研究的数据。MONSs 每年在全球范围内继续报告更多的研究。然而，自 2012 年以来，他们对神经外科期刊的贡献一直在逐渐下降。科学出版仅限于摩洛哥的几个大型神经外科部门和一些学术神经外科医生。大多数报告是病例报告，用法语报告，收录在非神经外科期刊中，来自单一中心，没有国际合作。
摩洛哥的学术神经外科医生应该为他们的住院医师和年轻研究人员准备研究方法和医学写作。摩洛哥神经外科研究应该更加关注现代神经外科课题，突出我们的特殊性。更多具有高水平证据的研究应该在英语神经外科期刊上发表，这些期刊具有较高的影响因子和良好的科学声誉。MONSs 应该继续更频繁地相互合作，并与外国中心合作，以进一步提高国际出版物的质量和数量，无论他们面临什么困难。
