Physical Medicine Department, Principal Military Hospital, Tunis-Tunisia.
Faculty of Medicine of Tunis-Tunis El Manar University, Tunis-Tunisia.
Tunis Med. 2024 Jun 5;102(6):337-342. doi: 10.62438/tunismed.v102i6.4958.
Medical doctoral thesis publication is a way to ensure knowledge dissemination and to increase the scientific research visibility.
To determine thesis-related publication's rate at the Faculty of Medicine of Tunis (FMT), and identify associated factors.
Cross-sectional retrospective study including medical theses registered at the FMT over the study period (2015-2017). All publications related to the defended thesis were collated by scanning Scopus and Google scholar databases, up to April 2022. Binary logistic regression was performed to assess associated factors to publication. Adjusted Odds Ratios (AOR) were presented with 95% confidence interval.
Out of 878 defended theses, 11.8% (n=104) were published. Out of 130 publications in total, 90 (69.2%) interested Scopus-indexed journals with a mean Scimago Journal Rank (SJR) of 0.70. The publication was in English in 73.1% of cases. The median time between the thesis defense and the first scientific publication was 15 months. In multivariable analysis, associated factors to "at least one thesis-related publication" were the resident status of the candidate (AOR=2.35 [1.2-4.7]) and the grade assistant professor of the thesis supervisor (AOR=2.48 [1.1-5.6]).
Compared to the number of defended theses, the thesis-related publication's rate at the FMT is relatively low. Thus, enhanced support for doctoral students to optimize their engagement in research and to consequently promote scientific publication is highly recommended.
医学博士论文发表是确保知识传播和提高科研可见度的一种方式。
确定突尼斯医科学院（FMT）医学论文的相关发表率，并确定相关因素。
这是一项包括在研究期间（2015-2017 年）在 FMT 注册的医学论文的回顾性横断面研究。通过扫描 Scopus 和 Google Scholar 数据库，截至 2022 年 4 月，共整理了与答辩论文相关的所有出版物。采用二项逻辑回归评估与发表相关的因素。调整后的优势比（AOR）及其 95%置信区间（CI）。
在 878 篇答辩论文中，有 11.8%（n=104）发表。总共发表了 130 篇文章，其中 90 篇（69.2%）为 Scopus 索引期刊，平均 Scimago 期刊排名（SJR）为 0.70。其中 73.1%以英文发表。从论文答辩到第一份科学出版物的中位数时间间隔为 15 个月。在多变量分析中，与“至少有一篇论文相关出版物”相关的因素是候选人的住院医师身份（AOR=2.35[1.2-4.7]）和论文导师的副教授职称（AOR=2.48[1.1-5.6]）。
与答辩论文的数量相比，FMT 的论文相关发表率相对较低。因此，强烈建议为博士生提供更多支持，以优化他们参与研究的情况，并促进科学出版物的发表。
