Turkish International Publications in Cardiovascular Medicine Numerically Stabilized in Year 2000

Publications in cardiovascular medicine originating from Turkey were identified from the data of Science Citation Expanded in the Web of Science with the purpose of assessing the progress of the output Meeting abstracts and Jetters to the editor, as well as journals only covered by the on-line version were excluded. A weighted credit system was utilized for articles publi shed jointly with a nonmedical or noncardiovascular institution. Publications in cardiovascular medicine consisted of 68 articles with full text, of which 8 involved pediatric cardiology and ll cardiovascular surgery. In addition 42 publications appeared in journals included in SCI Expanded only. Cardiologic publications from Turkey made up this year again an estimated world share of 5.3 per mille leading to the inference of a stabilization as compared to the performance in the 1 990s.