İ.Ü. Cerrahpaşa Tıp Fakültesi Emekli Öğretim Üyesi, Türk Kardiyoloji Derneği

Publications in medicine and cardiovascular medicine originating from Turkey were identified from the data of Science Citation Index Expanded in the Web of Science with the purpose of assessing the progress of the output A weighted credit system was utilized for items published jointly with a foreign or a nonmedical Turkish institution. A total of 2850 medical publications were traced which comprised 1930 articles, reviews and editorials. These figures represented an increase by 21% over the previous year. Turkey's share of world medical publication output was estimated to have risen to 6.7 per mille. Publications in cardiovascular medicine consisted of 67 articles with full text, in addition to 49 meeting abstracts and letters to the editor and 36 publications in journals included in SCI Expanded only. Cardiologic publications from Turkey made up a world share of 6.4 per mille. With 5.3% of total Turkish medical publications, they ranked in the middle of the various fields of medicine.