title: [Medical scientific Romania in the European context].
abstract: A national and international publications bibliometric analysis was assessed to evaluate the scientific research situation about Romania and the relation with the European Parliament Health objectives for 2003-2008.
  
  
  METHODS
  A bibliographical search in MEDLINE between 1999 and 2003 was performed. An annual review was done and the articles were classified on seven activity branches. The clinical medicine articles were classified by using medical specialties. The 2003-2008 Health European report was classified on fourteen objectives and related to the Romanian scientific production.
  
  
  RESULTS
  2068 articles were found, distributed 271 in 1999, 373 in 2000, 434 in 2001, 492 in 2002, and 498 in 2003. 1335 are clinical medicine, 485 basic sciences, 126 Public Health, 40 pollution and environmental, 36 mental health and 25 nursing articles. 21 were not classified.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The highest article's number belongs to the clinical medicine field and the highest research interest was found in Ophthalmology medical specialty. An increasing scientific research evolution was found but a focussed research tendency was observed around some of the European Union Parliament's objectives.
authors.affiliation: Departamentul de Medicină Preventivă si Sănătate Publică, Universitatea Din Alicante, Spania.
authors.forename: D S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Rădut
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Alvarez-Dardet
authors.forename: Maria Teresa
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Ruiz
mesh_terms: D015706:Bibliometrics; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005062:European Union; D006801:Humans; D016239:MEDLINE; D008511:Medicine / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011643:Publishing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012383:Romania; D013038:Specialization