Slight Decline in Turkish Cardiovascular Publications 2002 Covered by Science Citation Index

The progress of the output of publications in cardiovascular medicine ariginaring from Turkey: ı· institutions ıvere evaluated based on the data of the Web of Science. After exe/usian of meeting absu·acts and fetters to the editOt; articles in full-text appearing in source publications of Science Citation Index CD Edition al one ıvere included. A ı veiglıted eredil system ıva s u see/ for it em s published jointly w ith a foreign or a noncardiological Turkish institution. A total of 95 m·ticles ı ve re identified w/ı i cl ı represented a dim.inution. by 5% over the previous year. Thus, Turkey's sitare of ıvorld pırblica tion output in cardio vascırlar medicine declined in2002 slightly to 6.6 per nıille. Cardiology w ith 74 articlesıvas anticipatedly alıead of cardiovascular surgery with 14, and pediatric cardiology with 7 articles. Median impact factor of source publications remained at 1.0. Turkey 's Advanced Specialty Hospital res u med it s leading position. lt appears thatthe recent regulation on academic promotion affected cardiovascular publications in a ı vcıy that loıver qua/ity periodicals, covered by SC/ Expanded only, tended to be preferred.