RESEARCH ACTIVITIES ON SCHIZOPHRENIA IN 17 NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING COUNTRIES - A MEDLINE SURVEY

We investigated research activities on schizophrenia in 17 non-English speaking (13 European: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Ge rmany, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and Sw eden and 4 Asian: China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan) countries via a MEDLINE database survey. Despite the handicap of language, a reassu ringly large number of English-written papers in research into schizop hrenia have been reported; 892 papers from these countries appeared ov er the period 1990-1994. Among the countries investigated, Scandinavia n countries in particular were found to have produced more communicabl e papers after taking into account the number of psychiatrists.