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Contribution of Turkish Researchers to the World's Biomedical Literature (1988–1997)

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The contribution of Turkish researchers to positive sciences is increasing. Turkish scientists published more than 5100 articles in 1998 in scientific journals indexed by the Institute for Scientific Information's Science Citation Index, which elevated Turkey to the 25th place in the world rankings in terms of total contribution to science. In this paper, we report the preliminary findings of the bibliometric characteristics (authors and affiliations, medical journals and their impact factors, among others) of a total of 8442 articles published between 1988 and 1997 by scientists affiliated with Turkish institutions and indexed in the MEDLINE database.

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  1. Department of Library Science, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

    Yaşar Tonta

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Tonta, Y. Contribution of Turkish Researchers to the World's Biomedical Literature (1988–1997). Scientometrics 48, 71–84 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005632402450

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