Rabow L, Rabow I
Nord Med. 1998 May;113(5):157-8.
Bibliometric methods have been used to study the distribution of research literature on disc surgery between neurological and orthopaedic departments globally and within each of the Nordic countries. Worldwide, the total number of indexed papers was found to be almost twice as great for neurosurgical as for orthopedic institutions. Though figures for the Nordic countries were lower, they manifested the same trend, except those for Sweden where orthopaedic surgeons appear to do more research than neurosurgeons in this field. Moreover, it was found that a greater proportion of neurosurgeons than orthopaedic surgeons had published papers in journals outside their own field (29 vs 9 per cent respectively), and that 14 per cent of the neurosurgical reports had been published in orthopedic journals, but none of the orthopedic reports had been published in neurosurgical journals. Finally, scrutiny of the reference literature cited in randomly selected samples of papers from neurosurgical and orthopedic departments showed 22 per cent of the references in neurosurgical papers to be to orthopaedic journals or textbooks, but only 4 per cent of those in orthopedic papers to be to neurosurgical texts. The possible implications of these findings are discussed in the article, as are the methodological sources of error.
文献计量学方法已被用于研究全球范围内以及北欧各国神经科和骨科之间椎间盘手术研究文献的分布情况。在全球范围内，神经外科机构的索引论文总数几乎是骨科机构的两倍。尽管北欧国家的数据较低，但除了瑞典，其他国家都呈现出相同的趋势，在瑞典，骨科医生在该领域的研究似乎比神经外科医生更多。此外，研究发现，发表过本领域以外期刊论文的神经外科医生比例高于骨科医生（分别为29%和9%），并且14%的神经外科报告发表在骨科期刊上，但没有一篇骨科报告发表在神经外科期刊上。最后，对神经外科和骨科部门随机抽取的论文样本中引用的参考文献进行审查发现，神经外科论文中有22%的参考文献来自骨科期刊或教科书，而骨科论文中只有4%的参考文献来自神经外科文献。本文讨论了这些发现可能带来的影响以及方法学上的误差来源。
