A global bibliometric analysis of otolaryngology: Head and neck surgery literature

Abstract

Bibliometric analysis can be used to identify not only major centres of English-language ENT surgical research, such as the USA and UK but centres that are producing high-quality data, such as Spain, and cost-effective research, such as the UK. It can also highlight areas of increasing success in ENT research.

A 6-Year Analysis of Publications from Turkey in the Field of Otolaryngology in Science Citation Index Journals: Before and After the Change in Criteria for Associate Professorship

“…When the number of authors was evaluated according to the year of publication, there were mean 6.04 authors in 2014, 5 in 2017, 5.21 in 2018 and 5.07 in the first 9 months of 2019 ( Figure 1). The number reached 6.61 in 2016, then gradually reduced to 5.07 in 2019.…”

“…In addition, the experience, foresight and scientific capability of faculty members supporting the writing and publishing of articles constitute an advantage for authors. 5 Academic experience increased throughout the whole process, from the stage of the emergence of ideas in article preparation, the determination of innovations which will contribute to literature, data collection, writing the article, academic English language ability, and the quality and selection of the journal. In the fields of medicine, biology and other natural sciences, Turkish universities are not at the desired level and according to the Nature Index, 70 articles constituted 1.16 per 1000 of the total 60473 articles in 2018.…”

“…6 When otolaryngology is considered in particular, in an evaluation by Saunders et al, Turkey was in 10 th place in the classification of the number of articles, and in 18 th place in the classification of the impact factor of the publications. 5 In the new criteria for associate professorship, the mandatory teaching of lessons for at least one semester requires doctors who plan an academic career to work in universities or training and research hospitals. The decrease in articles from state hospitals and private hospitals/practices after 2016 can be attributed to these conditions.…”

Sleeping beauties in the otolaryngology–head & neck surgery literature

“…Yet its use Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery (OHNS) is relatively recent, and a subject with which many in our field may be unfamiliar. 4 Existing efforts in OHNS have been largely focused on the identification of "classic" articles and the impact of both journals and authors. [5][6][7] SBs have long been a recognized bibliometric phenomenon.…”

Dehiscencia del canal semicircular superior: Análisis de la producción científica

“…Hemos utilizado MEDLINE (PubMed) porque, por una parte, Bordons (2002) 6 y Saunders (2017) 7 la consideran la mejor y más completa base de datos biomédicos, y, por otra parte, por ser un buen instrumento para evaluar la calidad de las distintas fuentes, debido a la rigurosa selección de publicaciones que en ella aparecen según Martin-Rodero (2016) 8 . Al hacer la búsqueda nos hemos encontrado con ciertas limitaciones siendo la más importante la inclusión de publicaciones no relacionadas directamente con el tema como hemos expuesto en el apartado de material y métodos.…”