Dias M S
Department of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital of Buffalo, N.Y. 14222, USA.
Pediatr Neurosurg. 1998 Mar;28(3):111-20. doi: 10.1159/000028634.
The American Society of Pediatric Neurosurgeons (ASPN) has expressed a commitment to have all of its members' qualifying research efforts published in peer-reviewed pediatric neurosurgical journals such as Pediatric Neurosurgery. To test this commitment, citations from January 1985 through December 1994 were analyzed for all 76 current members of the ASPN. The citations were divided into those of general or adult neurosurgical interest, and those of pediatric neurosurgical interest based upon title, key words, and/or abstract. Each pediatric neurosurgical citation was further classified by topic, and by the type of journal in which it appeared (pediatric neurosurgical, general or adult neurosurgical, and other pediatric or adult journal, subspecialty journal, or basic science journal). A total of 1,887 individual author citations were identified during the study period; of these, 1,586 citations (84%) were classified as pediatric neurosurgical citations. These included 1,391 citations from peer-reviewed publications and 195 citations from Concepts in Pediatric Neurosurgery. As a society, the ASPN published only one third of its citations in peer-reviewed pediatric neurosurgery journals; the remainder were cited in general neurosurgical or other journals. Even when only citations from neurosurgical journals (in which pediatric neurosurgeons were more likely to be primary authors and therefore to have more control over the journal of publication) were analyzed, less than 50% of citations appeared in peer-reviewed pediatric neurosurgery journals. Nearly three quarters of ASPN members failed to provide even a modest commitment--publishing 51% or more of their pediatric citations in peer-reviewed pediatric neurosurgical journals. When the analysis was again limited to only those citations published in neurosurgery journals, over half of the members failed this '51% rule'. These results suggest the need for a firmer commitment from ASPN members to publish in peer-reviewed pediatric neurosurgery journals.
美国儿科神经外科学会（ASPN）已承诺，其所有成员的合格研究成果都要发表在同行评审的儿科神经外科期刊上，如《儿科神经外科学》。为检验这一承诺，对1985年1月至1994年12月期间ASPN的76名现任成员的文献引用情况进行了分析。根据标题、关键词和/或摘要，将引用分为普通或成人神经外科相关以及儿科神经外科相关两类。每一篇儿科神经外科引用文献还进一步按主题以及发表期刊的类型进行了分类（儿科神经外科期刊、普通或成人神经外科期刊、其他儿科或成人期刊、专科期刊或基础科学期刊）。在研究期间共识别出1887条个人作者引用；其中，1586条引用（84%）被归类为儿科神经外科引用。这些引用包括1391条来自同行评审出版物的引用以及195条来自《儿科神经外科学概念》的引用。作为一个学会，ASPN仅将其三分之一的引用发表在同行评审的儿科神经外科期刊上；其余的则发表在普通神经外科或其他期刊上。即使仅分析来自神经外科期刊的引用（儿科神经外科医生在这类期刊中更有可能是第一作者，因此对发表期刊有更多控制权），也只有不到50%的引用出现在同行评审的儿科神经外科期刊上。近四分之三的ASPN成员甚至未能做出适度的承诺——将其51%或更多的儿科引用发表在同行评审的儿科神经外科期刊上。当分析再次仅限于那些发表在神经外科期刊上的引用时，超过一半的成员未能达到这条“51%规则”。这些结果表明，ASPN成员需要做出更坚定的承诺，在同行评审的儿科神经外科期刊上发表文章。
