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Past and future trends in cancer and biomedical research: a comparison between Egypt and the World using PubMed-indexed publications

BACKGROUND: PubMed is a free web literature search service that contains almost 21 millions of abstracts and publications with almost 5 million user queries daily. The purposes of the study were to compare trends in PubMed-indexed cancer and biomedical publications from Egypt to that of the world an...

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Autores principales: Zeeneldin, Ahmed Abdelmabood, Taha, Fatma Mohamed, Moneer, Manar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3579741/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22780908
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-5-349
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Taha, Fatma Mohamed
Moneer, Manar
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description BACKGROUND: PubMed is a free web literature search service that contains almost 21 millions of abstracts and publications with almost 5 million user queries daily. The purposes of the study were to compare trends in PubMed-indexed cancer and biomedical publications from Egypt to that of the world and to predict future publication volumes. METHODS: The PubMed was searched for the biomedical publications between 1991 and 2010 (publications dates). Affiliation was then limited to Egypt. Further limitation was applied to cancer, human and animal publications. Poisson regression model was used for prediction of future number of publications between 2011 and 2020. RESULTS: Cancer publications contributed 23% to biomedical publications both for Egypt and the world. Egyptian biomedical and cancer publications contributed about 0.13% to their world counterparts. This contribution was more than doubled over the study period. Egyptian and world’s publications increased from year to year with rapid rise starting the year 2003. Egyptian as well as world’s human cancer publications showed the highest increases. Egyptian publications had some peculiarities; they showed some drop at the years 1994 and 2002 and apart from the decline in the animal: human ratio with time, all Egyptian publications in the period 1991-2000 were significantly more than those in 2001-2010 (P < 0.05 for all). By 2020, Egyptian biomedical and cancer publications will increase by 158.7% and 280% relative to 2010 to constitute 0.34% and 0.17% of total PubMed publications, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: The Egyptian contribution to world’s biomedical and cancer publications needs significant improvements through research strategic planning, setting national research priorities, adequate funding and researchers’ training.
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spelling pubmed-35797412013-02-23 Past and future trends in cancer and biomedical research: a comparison between Egypt and the World using PubMed-indexed publications Zeeneldin, Ahmed Abdelmabood Taha, Fatma Mohamed Moneer, Manar BMC Res Notes Research Article BACKGROUND: PubMed is a free web literature search service that contains almost 21 millions of abstracts and publications with almost 5 million user queries daily. The purposes of the study were to compare trends in PubMed-indexed cancer and biomedical publications from Egypt to that of the world and to predict future publication volumes. METHODS: The PubMed was searched for the biomedical publications between 1991 and 2010 (publications dates). Affiliation was then limited to Egypt. Further limitation was applied to cancer, human and animal publications. Poisson regression model was used for prediction of future number of publications between 2011 and 2020. RESULTS: Cancer publications contributed 23% to biomedical publications both for Egypt and the world. Egyptian biomedical and cancer publications contributed about 0.13% to their world counterparts. This contribution was more than doubled over the study period. Egyptian and world’s publications increased from year to year with rapid rise starting the year 2003. Egyptian as well as world’s human cancer publications showed the highest increases. Egyptian publications had some peculiarities; they showed some drop at the years 1994 and 2002 and apart from the decline in the animal: human ratio with time, all Egyptian publications in the period 1991-2000 were significantly more than those in 2001-2010 (P < 0.05 for all). By 2020, Egyptian biomedical and cancer publications will increase by 158.7% and 280% relative to 2010 to constitute 0.34% and 0.17% of total PubMed publications, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: The Egyptian contribution to world’s biomedical and cancer publications needs significant improvements through research strategic planning, setting national research priorities, adequate funding and researchers’ training. BioMed Central 2012-07-10 /pmc/articles/PMC3579741/ /pubmed/22780908 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-5-349 Text en Copyright ©2012 Zeeneldin et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Past and future trends in cancer and biomedical research: a comparison between Egypt and the World using PubMed-indexed publications
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title_fullStr Past and future trends in cancer and biomedical research: a comparison between Egypt and the World using PubMed-indexed publications
title_full_unstemmed Past and future trends in cancer and biomedical research: a comparison between Egypt and the World using PubMed-indexed publications
title_short Past and future trends in cancer and biomedical research: a comparison between Egypt and the World using PubMed-indexed publications
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3579741/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22780908
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-5-349
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