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Where are italian anesthesiologists and intensive care specialists publishing? A quantitative analysis of publication activity
INTRODUCTION: With the continuing worldwide shortage of anesthesiologists, the demands of clinical duties allow very little time for research activities. Every dedicated biomedical center should provide doctors and scientists with the proper environment to facilitate education, clinical practice and...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3484546/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23439775 |
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description | INTRODUCTION: With the continuing worldwide shortage of anesthesiologists, the demands of clinical duties allow very little time for research activities. Every dedicated biomedical center should provide doctors and scientists with the proper environment to facilitate education, clinical practice and research activities and promote publication in international peer-review journals. METHODS: In this observational study, the Scopus database was searched for publications ( 2004-2009 ) to identify the most prolific authors among Italian anesthesiologists and intensive care specialists working in Italy. We then identified the journals that most frequently hosted Italian writers. RESULTS: The top 20 authors published between 30 and 76 papers each (mean 51) in the last 5 years. Intensive Care Medicine (112 papers, 14%), Minerva Anestesiologica (92 papers, 11%), Critical Care Medicine (55 papers, 7%), Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia (32 papers, 4%), and European Journal of Anesthesiology (32 papers, 4%) most frequently hosted Italian authors. DISCUSSION: Despite its obvious limitations such as the choice of a single database (Scopus), the absence of important qualitative indicators (e.g. impact factor, citation index), the inclusion of any type of publication (a letter to the editor or reviews counted like a randomized controlled study) and the possible exclusion of important scholars, this is the most up-to-date and comprehensive attempt to perform a quantitative analysis of publishing in Italy. Each of the 20 indexed Journals that most frequently hosted Italian authors only accepts manuscripts in English and has impact factor. |
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spelling | pubmed-34845462013-02-25 Where are italian anesthesiologists and intensive care specialists publishing? A quantitative analysis of publication activity Buratti, L HSR Proc Intensive Care Cardiovasc Anesth Brief-Report INTRODUCTION: With the continuing worldwide shortage of anesthesiologists, the demands of clinical duties allow very little time for research activities. Every dedicated biomedical center should provide doctors and scientists with the proper environment to facilitate education, clinical practice and research activities and promote publication in international peer-review journals. METHODS: In this observational study, the Scopus database was searched for publications ( 2004-2009 ) to identify the most prolific authors among Italian anesthesiologists and intensive care specialists working in Italy. We then identified the journals that most frequently hosted Italian writers. RESULTS: The top 20 authors published between 30 and 76 papers each (mean 51) in the last 5 years. Intensive Care Medicine (112 papers, 14%), Minerva Anestesiologica (92 papers, 11%), Critical Care Medicine (55 papers, 7%), Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia (32 papers, 4%), and European Journal of Anesthesiology (32 papers, 4%) most frequently hosted Italian authors. DISCUSSION: Despite its obvious limitations such as the choice of a single database (Scopus), the absence of important qualitative indicators (e.g. impact factor, citation index), the inclusion of any type of publication (a letter to the editor or reviews counted like a randomized controlled study) and the possible exclusion of important scholars, this is the most up-to-date and comprehensive attempt to perform a quantitative analysis of publishing in Italy. Each of the 20 indexed Journals that most frequently hosted Italian authors only accepts manuscripts in English and has impact factor. EDIMES Edizioni Internazionali Srl 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC3484546/ /pubmed/23439775 Text en Copyright © 2009, HSR Proceedings in Intensive Care and Cardiovascular Anesthesia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial License 3.0, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non commercial and is otherwise in compliance with the license. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ and http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/legalcode. |
spellingShingle | Brief-Report Buratti, L Where are italian anesthesiologists and intensive care specialists publishing? A quantitative analysis of publication activity |
title | Where are italian anesthesiologists and intensive care specialists publishing? A quantitative analysis of publication activity |
title_full | Where are italian anesthesiologists and intensive care specialists publishing? A quantitative analysis of publication activity |
title_fullStr | Where are italian anesthesiologists and intensive care specialists publishing? A quantitative analysis of publication activity |
title_full_unstemmed | Where are italian anesthesiologists and intensive care specialists publishing? A quantitative analysis of publication activity |
title_short | Where are italian anesthesiologists and intensive care specialists publishing? A quantitative analysis of publication activity |
title_sort | where are italian anesthesiologists and intensive care specialists publishing? a quantitative analysis of publication activity |
topic | Brief-Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3484546/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23439775 |
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