title: A decade of AIDS literature.
abstract: From 1983 through mid-1991, more than 200,000 MEDLINE entries were AIDS-related. Close to 60% of the journals indexed in MEDLINE published at least one article on AIDS during the past ten years. As reflected by a subset of 29,077 MEDLINE records, the literature of AIDS has grown to encompass 29 languages and 65 countries. A bibliometric study of the medical literature helps to demonstrate the progression of AIDS as a world health problem and the concomitant expansion of the research effort underway to control it.
authors.affiliation: Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library 77030.
authors.forename: G F
authors.initials: GF
authors.lastname: Pratt
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; D001319:Authorship; D016206:Databases, Bibliographic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D016239:MEDLINE / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011643:Publishing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014481:United States