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  • Title: [Bibliometric profile of Tunisians medicals publications indexed in Medline from 2000 to 2003. Part 3: International radiance].
    Author: Ben Abdelaziz A, Abdelali M, Khmakhem A.
    Journal: Tunis Med; 2007 Feb; 85(2):96-101. PubMed ID: 17665652.
    Abstract:
    OBJECTIVE: This work tries to measure the international radiance of the Tunisian medical research indexed in Medline's database. METHODS: It concerns a descriptive bibliometric study of the whole of the Tunisian medical articles indexed in "Medline" between 2000 and 2003 and interpreted according to a request made in January 2005. The international radiance was measured by the proportions of the articles published in foreign reviews and written in English. RESULTS: Have been eligible to the study, 1 248 articles published in 2 national reviews and in 196 foreign one which from 21 different countries, essentially the France, the USA and the England. These articles were published in foreign reviews and in English language respectively in 60.6% and 19.6% of the cases. The majority (96%) of the articles written in English were published in foreign reviews. The distribution of the papers according to the publications to the " publication type" shows that four papers among ten were nd only 2.1% were "clinical trials". CONCLUSION: It results from this study that the international radiance of the Tunisian medical research is enough satisfactory. The adoption of study schemas methodically more rigorous in the one hand and to choice the English as a scientific communication language, could make easier the publication of the nationals works in international reviews in a high impact factor.
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