On books and journals - Discussion of the evaluation of scientific performance in culturally and linguistically bound disciplines in medicine

The financial support of scientific institutions more and more depends on e valuating programms. Different modells of evaluation purposes are discussed . The number of journal articels published by scientist and the internation al distribution of articels are used for academic evaluation purposes. On t he basis of bibliometric features, the citations of the "Zeitschrift ftir K linische Psychologic, Psychiatric und Psychotherapie" is recorded. Based on this records, there is a discussion on the significance of the competition indicators for quality-assurance of articels.