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. 2002 Apr 30:2:3.
doi: 10.1186/1472-6920-2-3.

Geographical distribution of publications in the field of medical education

Oktay Tutarel  1
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Geographical distribution of publications in the field of medical education

Oktay Tutarel. BMC Med Educ. .

Abstract

Background: The geographical distribution of publications as an indicator of the research productivity of individual countries, regions or institutions has become a field of interest. We investigated the geographical distribution of contributions to the two leading journals in the field of medical education, Academic Medicine and Medical Education.

Methods: PubMed was used to search Medline. For both journals all journal articles in each year from 1995 to 2000 were included into the study. Then the affiliation was retrieved from the affiliation field of the MEDLINE format. If this was not possible, it was obtained from the paper version of the journal.

Results: Academic Medicine published contributions from 25 countries between 1995 and 2000. Authors from 50 countries contributed to Medical Education in the same period of time. Authors from the USA and Canada wrote ca. 95% off all articles in Academic Medicine, whereas authors from the UK, Australia, the USA, Canada and the Netherlands were responsible for ca. 74% of all articles in Medical Education in the investigated period of time.

Conclusions: While many countries contributed to both journals, only a few of them were responsible for the majority of all articles.

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Figure 1
Number of journal articles published per year in Academic Medicine and Medical Education The blue line represents Academic Medicine and the red line Medical Education.
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Figure 2
The eight leading countries in Academic Medicine and their share in per cent
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Figure 3
The eight leading countries in Medical Education and their share in per cent
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