title: An analysis of 5 years of medical informatics publications.
abstract: This study describes an analysis of 1520 papers that were published in six medical informatics journals from 1992 through 1996, and indexed in NLM's MEDLINE. Of retrieved publications the countries of origin were determined, and insight in the subject of the publication was obtained by analysing the used MeSH terms. The main conclusion is that despite the fact that publications in medical informatics stem from a wide international community, scientific recognition can still not be demonstrated by high impact factors of journals.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Informatics, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. moorman@mi.fgg.eur.nl
authors.forename: P W
authors.initials: PW
authors.lastname: Moorman
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: van der Lei
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: van Bemmel
mesh_terms: D000043:Abstracting and Indexing; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013358:Subject Headings