PUBLICATION POTENTIAL IN PEDIATRICS IN TURKEY

In this article, the publication potential in pediatrics in Turkey was investigated. In this context, native pediatric journals, publication activities of medical faculties as the main source of scientific publ ication and certain data obtained from some of the international index es' sources were analyzed. The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics (Turk J P ediatr) and Cocuk Sagligi vs Hastaliklari Dergisi are two native pedia tric journals which have been published without interruption for 36 an d 37 years, respectively. Both are indexed in BIOSIS (Bioscience Infor mation Service) and Excerpta Medica. In addition, Turk J Pediatr is in dexed in Index Medicus and Current Contents, and is the only Turkish m edical journal indexed in Index Medicus at present. Eighty percent of papers submitted to both journals are from medical faculties all over the country (60% of these from Hacettepe Faculty of Medicine), while 1 5% are from the teaching hospitals of the Ministry of Health and 5% fr om outside the country. In 1994, Hacettepe University School of Medici ne was the leader with 244 (21%) of the 1165 articles published in the health sciences from 22 medical faculties in Turkey. In the same year , 32 percent of all international medical publications by Hacettepe Fa culty of Medicine were in the field of pediatrics. In addition, of 353 papers by Turkish authors appearing in-Current Contents during the th ree-month period July-September 1993, 70 (20%) were pediatric articles . All of these findings may indicate that publications in the field of pediatrics have increasing potential and an important impact on the s cientific medical publication's platform in our country.