Contribution of Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine to the World's Biomedical Literature (1988-1997)

The contribution of Turkish researchers to sciences is increasing. Turkish scientists publishedmore than 6.000 articles in 1999 in scientific journals indexed by the Institute for Scientific Information’s Science Citation Index, which puts Turkey to the 25th place in the world rankings interms of total contribution to science. The number of biomedical publications authored by Turkishscientists is increasing faster than that of engineering and other non-medical sciences, whichmight be one of the main causes of the steep rise in Turkey’s rankings that we have been witnessing in recent years. More specifically, researchers affiliated with Hacettepe Universityproduce almost a quarter of all the biomedical publications of Turkey that appear in international biomedical literature. In this paper, we report the findings of the bibliometric characteristics (authors and affiliations, medical journals and their impact factors, among others) of a total of 1.434 articlespublished between 1988 and 1997 by scientists affiliated with Hacettepe University Faculty ofMedicine and indexed in MEDLINE, a well-known biomedical bibliographic database