Objective:
The objective of this study was to review the articles on otology-neurotology submitted from Turkey and published in Science Citation Indexed (SCI) and Science Citation Index-Expanded (SCI-E) journals in the period from 2012 through 2016 in terms of characteristics and quantity, and to analyze the variances in these parameters over the defined time period to profile the national scientific endeavor in the field.
Methods:
We searched the papers on otology-neurotology and related subjects that were submitted from Turkey and published in the period from 2012 through 2016 in the relevant journals listed in SCI and SCI-E. We noted the impact factors and quartile rankings of the publishing journals, and reviewed, counted and classified the titles, subjects, types and characteristics of the articles that met our criteria.
Results:
A total of 546 papers from Turkey were published in 25 SCI and SCI-E listed journals (145 and 401, respectively) in the defined period. The impact factors of these 25 journals ranged from 0.392 to 2.951. Of these papers, 393 (71.97%) were experimental or observational clinical studies, case reports, or surveys; 137 (25.10%) were non-clinical, laboratory or animal experiments; and the remaining 16 (2.93%) were reviews or letters to the editor.
Conclusion:
A substantial number of papers on otology-neurotology submitted from Turkey were published in many prestigious SCI-journals, however, we did not find any significant increase in this number in the given period. We also found concentration of articles in certain journals and inclination to a few subjects and would like to underline that the number of basic science and ecological-epidemiological studies within the confines of our review were relatively few.
Keywords: Otology-neurotology, bibliometrics, Turkey, Science Citation Index