Bioethics and Anesthesia: A Reflexive Study of Reports Published in the Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology

A Bibliometric Analysis of an International Research Ethics Trainee Program

“…Not unlike other fields, these have been used to assess the accumu lated knowledge about a specific topic, for example, stem cell research (Zarzeczny & Caulfield, 2009), biobanks (Wendler, 2006), or endoflife care (Rietjens et al, 2012). From time to time, the scholars conducting these reviews have used bibliometric methods to describe the content and scope of the literature on a topic, or the nature of the ethics literature within a journal or country (Baldwin et al, 2003;Belinchon, Ramos, & Bellver, 2007;Borry, Schotsmans, & Dierickx, 2005, 2006a, 2006bCohen et al, 2008;Dos Santos & de France, 2011;Hossne, 2011;Jiang et al, 2012;Marques, de Sousa, & Gimenez Galvao, 2006;Pizzani, da Silva, & Hossne, 2010;Stepke, 2010). Scholars have also used bibliometric methods to measure compliance with research ethics regulations and to trace the life cycle of scientific misconduct (Dagg & Seidle, 2004;Garfield & Welljams Dorof, 1990;Korpela, 2010;Neale, Dailey, & Abrams, 2010;Neale et al, 2007;Steen, 2012).…”