title: [Contribution of Turkish Emergency Medicine to the international literature: evaluation of 15 years].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The aim of this study was to present characteristics of internationally published articles originating from Turkish Emergency Medicine (EM) departments over the last 15 years.
  
  
  METHODS
  The PubMed database was searched for all articles published from 1995 to 2010 that originated from Turkish EM departments. RESULTS A total of 514 articles were included. Of all articles, 77% (n=396) were published in the last five years. Publications were detected to increase at a rate of 6.2 articles per year. 58.7% (n=302) of the articles were published in non-EM journals. Advances in Therapy in the non-EM group, with 27 articles, and the Turkish Journal of Trauma & Emergency Surgery in the EM group, with 48 articles, were the preferred journals. The most popular subjects were toxicology, at 26% (n=134), followed by trauma, at 16% (n=86). 7.7% (n=40) of all articles were animal studies and 6% (n=31) were randomized controlled trials.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Significant publication growth was detected related with the development of EM in Turkey. The preference for non- EM journals, toxicology as the most popular subject and the effect of university hospitals were the interesting results of this study. The low number of multicenter, randomized controlled trials and of published articles in high impact factor journals have led us to consider the importance of publication quality, which requires additional effort.
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, Gülhane Military Medical Academy, Ankara, Turkey. orhancinar@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Orhan
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Cınar
authors.forename: Mehmet
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dokur
authors.forename: Onur
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Tezel
authors.forename: Ibrahim
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Arzıman
authors.forename: Yahya Ayhan
authors.initials: YA
authors.lastname: Acar
mesh_terms: D015706:Bibliometrics; D004635:Emergency Medicine / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D011643:Publishing; D014421:Turkey