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European Spine Journal
Published in: European Spine Journal 4/2016

01-04-2016 | Editorial

Publication rates: is more better?

Author: R. Gunzburg

Published in: European Spine Journal | Issue 4/2016

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Excerpt

In 2005, I looked at some numbers on PubMed for a presentation I had to give at that time. While typing the word ‘spine’ it generated 86,320 hits. By adding the term ‘surgery’, this number became 29,983. Today I did the same and got 181,850 and 79,589 hits, respectively—more than a doubling of the amount of publications over an 11-year span. What does this tell us? That our knowledge increases, or merely that we publish more? …
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Title
Publication rates: is more better?
Author
R. Gunzburg
Publication date
01-04-2016
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
European Spine Journal / Issue 4/2016
Print ISSN: 0940-6719
Electronic ISSN: 1432-0932
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00586-016-4527-z

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