Tunis Med. 2021;99(12):1156-1166.
Describe the bibliometric profile of medical dissertations in Sousse Faculty of Medicine (SOFM) in Tunisia.
This is a cross-sectional bibliometric study of all dissertations defended from 2001 to 2005. The data were collected through a reading grid applied to the cover page, conclusion, and summary of the thesis. The specialty of the dissertation has been attributed to its first director. Themes were defined by the "essential descriptor", chosen from the descriptors used for the indexing.
The 670 theses collected, all written in French except one in Arabic, were original, pedagogic or bibliographical works in respectively 93.3%, 6.4%, and 0.3% respectively. "Community and Preventive Medicine" was the discipline that generated the most theses with a proportion of 8.9%. About half (48%) of the dissertations were supervised by two directors. The first director was a University Hospital Professor or an Associate Professor of Conferences, respectively in 34% and 42% of cases. The chairman of the thesis jury belonged to the same specialty as the first director and was from the same department in respectively 54% and 41% of cases. Four "essential descriptors" were frequently cited as indexation of the dissertation: "tumor", "CD-Rom", "trauma", and "diabetes". These dissertations were "clinical" type in 68% of cases, of which around 80% were "case studies".
The doctoral dissertation in SOFM was characterized by the orientation towards clinical and epidemiological research and the preference for general medicine and community health themes. It's often recourse to a basic research estimate and its writing in French would be two factors limiting its scientific promotion and its social influence.
描述突尼斯苏塞医学院（SOFM）医学论文的文献计量学特征。
这是一项针对 2001 年至 2005 年期间所有论文的横断面文献计量研究。通过应用于论文封面、结论和摘要的阅读表收集数据。论文的专业由其第一主任授予。主题是通过从索引中使用的描述符中选择的“基本描述符”来定义的。
共收集了 670 篇论文，除一篇用阿拉伯语写的论文外，其余均用法语撰写，分别为原创、教学或文献作品，占 93.3%、6.4%和 0.3%。“社区与预防医学”是产生论文最多的学科，占 8.9%。大约一半（48%）的论文由两位主任监督。第一主任分别为大学医院教授或副教授，分别占 34%和 42%。论文答辩委员会主席与第一主任同专业，来自同一系的分别占 54%和 41%。四个“基本描述符”常被引用作为论文索引：“肿瘤”、“CD-Rom”、“创伤”和“糖尿病”。这些论文在 68%的情况下为“临床”类型，其中约 80%为“病例研究”。
SOFM 的博士论文以临床和流行病学研究为导向，倾向于普通医学和社区卫生主题。它经常求助于基础研究估计，用法语写作是限制其科学推广和社会影响的两个因素。
