title: [An international comparison of publications from the staff of the First Medical Faculty of Charles University using the Science Citation Index and the 1991-1994 faculty bibliography].
abstract: The present tendency is to require publishing activity as one of the evaluation criteria for research performance, and to apply the ranking of journals according to their impact factors as published in the Science Citation Index (SCI). In the first two sections of this papers, ten top original papers and five top monographs from the faculty staff of the 1st Medical Faculty of the Charles University (1.MF) from the years 1991-1995 are quoted, to demonstrate their publishing results. The third section discusses the publishing output of the 1.MF and the Faculty Hospital, and covers 7,164 publications. From 1993, a detailed annual Faculty Bibliography has appeared. The publications are divided into 18 categories, and their absolute and relative quantities are presented in table form. The analysis of quantity and type of publishing category is compared with the analogous spectrum of document types appearing in Current Contents-Life Sciences. 87.9% of all publications appeared in journals. 11.3% were published in international journals indexed by SCI. The paper also discusses the impact of the evidence of such indexing of the growing publishing output of the 1.MF in all categories, including possibilities for increasing the number of papers published in core international journals, as defined by their SCI ranking.
authors.affiliation: Ustav vĕdeckých informací 1. lékarské fakulty Univerzity Karlovy, Praha, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Spála
mesh_terms: D015706:Bibliometrics; D018153:Czech Republic; D016206:Databases, Bibliographic; D005180:Faculty, Medical; D011643:Publishing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*