British otorhinolaryngological research. An analysis of publication trends

Is the UK Contribution to Published Clinical Otolaryngology Research Changing?

“…Sandhu et al came to the same conclusion when comparing results in eight of the journals between the periods of 1984-1989 and 1997-1999. 3,4 KEY FINDINGS…”

Publishing trends in otolaryngology in the UK

“…We were interested to read the article on research output by Sandhu and Wright 1 and were glad to see their reference to the sentinel paper by Hussain and Nunez in 1993 2 . We were, however, rather surprised that they failed to refer to our follow‐up study 3 published in Clinical Otolaryngology in 1999 in which we analysed the UK publication data for the decade between 1984 and 1995.…”

“…We looked at the UK contribution to 10 ENT journals, including Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology and Head and Neck , which were omitted from the 2001 study 1 . We accept that, by including these extra journals, the annual publication rates between 1985 and 1989 only rose from 216.2 1,2 to 224.2 3 . In the following 5 years, this rose to 258.6 (corresponding to approximately 250 per year from the eight journals), peaking at 273 articles per year emanating from the UK in 1991 3 .…”

Publishing trends in otorhinolaryngology from January 1997 to December 1999 in the UK

“…Nearly 10 years ago Hussain and Nunez 1 analysed otorhinolarygological (ENT) publications coming from British centres over a 5‐year period ending December 1989. They concluded that the concentration of publications came from a few centres and from a few authors, depending heavily upon the resources available, the size of the groups and the enthusiasm of key individuals.…”

“…To assess the effects of these possibly conflicting changes we recorded all the British based publications in the eight leading English language otorhinolaryngology journals along the same lines as Hussain and Nunez 1 so that the overall output could be assessed and valid comparisons made.…”