Pubmed Veri Tabanında 1990-2013 Yılları Arasında Yayınlanan Türkiye Kaynaklı Göz Hastalıkları Makaleleri

Objectives: To investigate the frequency and distribution of ophthalmic articles with Turkish origin on Pubmed search engine and to\udcompare these data with those of the world’s leading countries in that field.\udMaterials and Methods: Using the words “ophthalmology” and “Turkey”, an online retrospective search was conducted on Pubmed\udfor the period from 1990 to 2013. Additionally, same search was performed for each ophthalmic journal indexed in Science Citation\udIndex Expanded (SCI-E) (n=56) and not indexed in SCI-E (n=8), separately. The articles were divided into two groups (research articles\udand the other articles as case reports, letters, correspondence, editorials and reviews).\udResults: A total of 5044 articles in the area of ophthalmology were from Turkey in that period. The United States of America, Japan,\udand Germany had the maximum number of published articles (25%, 6.8%, and 4.9% of all, respectively). There were 3334 articles on\udophthalmic journals. 2822 articles were published in SCI-E journals and of those, 2321 were research articles and 501 were other types of\udarticles. Three SCI-E indexed ophthalmic journals which mostly published Turkish articles are the European Journal of Ophthalmology,\udJournal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, and the Ophthalmologica (361, 183, and 152, respectively).\udConclusion: In this period, the rate of the published ophthalmic articles originated from Turkey was 1.5%. We observed that the\udnumber of Turkish ophthalmic articles has been increasing gradually. (Turk J Ophthalmol 2014; 44: 465-70