Analysis of SCI-Level Medical Papers by Korean Institute Researchers from 1971 to 2019

Kim, Mi Hee

doi:10.69528/jkmla.2019.46.1_2.1

J Korean Med Libr Assoc 2019; 46(1_2):1-11

pISSN: 2383-8809

DOI: https://doi.org/10.69528/jkmla.2019.46.1_2.1

Article

한국 기관 연구자의 SCI급 의학논문 현황 분석 1971∼2019

김미희 ¹ ^, ^*

Analysis of SCI-Level Medical Papers by Korean Institute Researchers from 1971 to 2019

Mi Hee Kim ¹ ^, ^*

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¹연세대학교 의학도서관

¹Yonsei University Medical Library, Seoul, Korea

^*Corresponding author : Mi Hee Kim, Yonsei University Medical Library, 50-1 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 03722, Korea, Tel: 82-2-2228-2910, Fax: 82-2-2227-8313, E-mail: mhkim@yuhs.ac

ⓒ Copyright 2019 The Korean Medical Library Association. This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Received: Oct 15, 2019; Revised: Nov 20, 2019; Accepted: Dec 16, 2019

Published Online: Dec 30, 2019

Abstract

Purpose:

This study aims to identify the current status of SCI-level medical papers by Korean institutional researchers that were published from 1971 to 2019 through quantitative and qualitative analysis.

Methods:

SCI-level medical papers by Korean institutional researchers listed in the Web of Science were analyzed quantitatively by dividing them into all fields of medicine, basic and clinical medicine, and detailed medical parts by 10 year interval. Also, the yearly analysis of the 5 years’ citations after the publication was conducted to identify qualitative status.

Results:

The number of papers in all fields of medicine, basic and clinical medicine, and detailed medical parts all increased, and their share in world medical papers also increased significantly. However, the yearly analysis between 2011 and 2019 showed that the share has decreased after peaking in 2015. Also, compared to clinical medicine, the number of papers in basic medicine in Korea decreased from 40% in the 1970s to 30% in the 2010s. Prior to 1995, the number of citations per paper tended to fluctuated sharply due to the small number of papers, but since then, the overall trend is on the rise without a significant drop.

Conclusion:

As Korean medical papers have increased quantitatively, their world share has also increased, and they are steadily rising qualitatively. However, as quantitative share has declined since 2015, further research is needed to determine whether the cause is the shift in performance evaluations in medical fields from quantity to quality or the decline in medical science as a whole.

Keywords: Bibliometrics; Biomedical Research; Korea; Web of Science

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