Trends in Dermatology Publications over the Past 15 Years

Mimouni, Daniel; Pavlovsky, Lev; Akerman, Lehavit; David, Michael; Mimouni, Francis

doi:10.2165/11530190-000000000-00000

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“…It has been reported that the number of publications in dermatology has been increasing year by year. 13,14 In the present study, we demonstrate that there has also been a dramatic increase in the number of publications in dermatology in mainland China. The dramatic increase in publications in mainland China could be partially attributable to its rapid economic growth.…”

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Ten‐year publication trends in dermatology in mainland China

Xin

Mauro

et al. 2013

Int J Dermatology

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Background China has been experiencing huge changes in all aspects including dermatologic research since its reform in 1978. However, how the economic and intellectual development has influenced the publication trends in the field of dermatology, which could mirror the scientific development in other medical disciplines, is unknown. In the present study, we analyzed the publication trends from departments of dermatology in mainland China from 2002 to 2011. Materials and Methods All publication data were obtained from www.pubmed.com. Only papers published from dermatology departments of mainland China were used for analysis. Results The number of publications increased 10-fold over this 10 year period. A total 1,231 of articles were published in English in 251 journals between 2002 and 2011. A total of 129 journals published only one paper from dermatology departments of mainland China. Over 60% of articles were original research and 21.7% were case reports. Among these 251 journals, foremost was the Journal of Clinical Experimental Dermatology, which published 5.9% of all papers from mainland China. 2.7% papers were published in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology. The number of publications positively correlated with the changes in gross domestic product per capita during the study period. Conclusions These results suggest that the number of publications in the dermatology field has increased markedly in mainland China over the last 10 years. This dramatic increase in publications could be, at least partially, attributed to the significant improvement in economic conditions in mainland China.

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“…It has been reported that the number of publications in dermatology has been increasing year by year 8,9 . In the present study, we demonstrate that there also has been a dramatic increase in the number of publications in dermatology in mainland China.…”

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Ten‐year publication trends in dermatology in mainland China

Xin

Mauro

et al. 2013

Int J Dermatology

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“…Dermatology in Japan, the well-developed country, published papers more than the total of mainland China and South Korea over the last 10 years. It is reported that the number of publications in dermatology has been increasing yearly in both developing and developed countries [6,16] and the increase in the number of publications is associated with improvement of economic conditions [1,6,17]. In contrast, the present study revealed that the number of publications in dermatology in Japan remained unchanged from 2003 to 2012 despite the linearly increase of GDPPC.…”

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Comparison of publication trends in dermatology among Japan, South Korea and Mainland China

Man

Xin

et al. 2014

BMC Dermatol

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BackgroundWe previously showed that the number of publications in dermatology is increasing year by year, and positively correlates with improved economic conditions in mainland China, a still developing Asian country. However, the characteristics of publications in dermatology departments in more developed Asian countries such as Japan and South Korea are unknown.MethodsIn the present study, publications from 2003 through 2012 in dermatology in Japan, South Korea and mainland China were characterized. All data were obtained from http://www.pubmed.com.ResultsDermatology departments in Japan published 4,094 papers, while mainland China and South Korea published 1528 and 1,758 articles, respectively. 48% of articles from dermatology in Japan were original research and 36% were case reports; The number of publications in Japan remained stable over time, but the overall impact factors per paper increased linearly over the last 10 year period (p < 0.05). In mainland China, 67% of articles from dermatology were original research, while 19% were case reports; The number of publications and their impact factors per paper increased markedly. In South Korea, 65% of articles from dermatology were original research and 20% were case reports. The impact factors per paper remained unchanged, despite of the fact that the number of publications increased over the last 10 year period (r2 = 0.6820, p = 0.0032). Only mainland China showed a positive correlation of the number of publications with gross domestic product per capita during this study period.ConclusionsThese results suggest that the total number of publications in dermatology correlates with economic conditions only in developing country, but not in more developed countries in Asia. The extent of economic development could determine both the publication quantity and quality.

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“…Our search was limited to human subjects and to English language publications, and we sorted our results by PubMed publication type (ie, clinical trials, reviews, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, editorials, letters, case reports, practice guidelines, and historic articles). The PubMed engine has previously been found to accurately determine the publication type 100% of the time [1,2,6,7]. In order to verify and validate the accuracy of the publication type in the present study, we drew a random sample of 10 articles from 5 randomly selected years for manual evaluation.…”

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Military Medicine Publications: What has Happened in the Past Two Decades?

Yavnai¹,

Huerta-Hartal²,

Mimouni³

et al. 2014

Interact J Med Res

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BackgroundMilitary medical personnel, like all other physician specialists, face the challenge of keeping updated with developments in their field of expertise, in view of the great amount of new medical information published in the literature. The availability of the Internet has triggered tremendous changes in publication characteristics, and in some fields, the number of publications has increased substantially. The emergence of electronic open access journals and the improvement in Web search engines has triggered a significant change in the publication processes and in accessibility of information.ObjectiveThe objective of this study was to characterize the temporal trends in the number and types of publications in military medicine in the medical literature.MethodsWe searched all PubMed-registered publications from January 1, 1990 to December 31, 2010 using the keywords “military” or “army”. We used the publication tag in PubMed to identify and examine major publication types. The trends were tested using the Mann-Kendall test for trend.ResultsOur search yielded 44,443 publications in military medicine during the evaluation period. Overall, the number of publications showed two distinct phases over time: (1) a moderate increase from 1990 to 2001 with a mean annual increase of 2.78% (r 2=.79, P<.002), and (2) a steeper mean annual increase of 11.20% (r 2=.96, P<.002) from 2002 to 2010. Most of the examined publication types showed a similar pattern. The proportion of high-quality-of-evidence publication types (randomized controlled trials, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses) increased from 2.91% to 8.43% of the overall military medicine publications with a mean annual incremental increase of 14.20%. These publication types demonstrated a similar dual phase pattern of increase (10.01%, r 2=.80, P<.002 for 1990-2001 and 20.66%, r 2=.88, P<.002 for 2002-2010).ConclusionsWe conclude that over the past twenty years, scholarly work in the field of military medicine has shown a significant increase in volume, particularly among high quality publication types. However, practice guidelines remain rare, and meta-analyses are still limited in number.

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Trends in Dermatology Publications over the Past 15 Years

Abstract: The fields of pediatric and adult dermatology have had a significant yearly increase in studies providing a high level of scientific evidence with a much slower rise in the number of articles providing a lower level of evidence.

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Ten‐year publication trends in dermatology in mainland China

Ten‐year publication trends in dermatology in mainland China

Comparison of publication trends in dermatology among Japan, South Korea and Mainland China

Military Medicine Publications: What has Happened in the Past Two Decades?

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