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Contribution of Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine to the world's biomedical literature (1988-1997)

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The contribution of Turkish researchers to sciences is increasing. Turkish scientists published more than 6.000 articles in 1999 in scientific journals indexed by the Institute for Scientific Information"s Science Citation Index, which puts Turkey to the 25th place in the world rankings in terms of total contribution to science. The number of biomedical publications authored by Turkish scientists is increasing faster than that of engineering and other non-medical sciences, which might be one of the main causes of the steep rise in Turkey"s rankings that we have been witnessing in recent years. More specifically, researchers affiliated with Hacettepe University produce almost a quarter of all the biomedical publications of Turkey that appear in international biomedical literature. In this paper, we report the findings of the bibliometric characteristics (authors and affiliations, medical journals and their impact factors, among others) of a total of 1.434 articles published between 1988 and 1997 by scientists affiliated with Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine and indexed in MEDLINE, a well-known biomedical bibliographic database.

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  1. Faculty of Letters Department of Library Science, Hacettepe University, 06532, Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey

    YaŞar Tonta

  2. Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology Ankara, Hacettepe University, Turkey

    Mustafa Ilhan

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Tonta, Y., Ilhan, M. Contribution of Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine to the world's biomedical literature (1988-1997). Scientometrics 55, 123–136 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1016007205344

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