title: [Turkey's place in Europe in respect of pediatric otorhinolaryngology publications in scope of Science Citation Index].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study aims to evaluate quantitatively the pediatric otorhinolaryngology (ORL) publications belonging to the ORL journals of the Science Citation Index (SCI) made by Turkey and other European countries between five year periods during 1995 and 2012.
  
  
  METHODS
  After SCI journals of 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2012 under the ORL heading were determined, the publications of all European countries in these journals were detected electronically using PubMed search engine. Then, the number of pediatric ORL publications and the journals which included them were determined and counted manually for each country.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The number of total publications and pediatric ORL publications made by European countries in the mentioned years were 539/98, 737/123, 747/158, 757/175, and 746/171 respectively. Turkey was the country with the highest number of pediatric ORL publications in all years except 1995. It was detected that more than half of the total pediatric ORL publications were included in International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  It is pleasing that Turkey is ahead of many developed European countries in respect of the number of pediatric ORL publications. Further studies on type, evidence-based medicine or citation analysis of these publications will also enable qualitative evaluation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology, Medical Faculty of Dokuz Eylül University, 35340 İnciraltı, İzmir, Turkey. taner.erdag@deu.edu.tr.
authors.forename: Taner Kemal
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Erdağ
authors.forename: Mehmet
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Durmuşoğlu
authors.forename: Hüseyin
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Özay
authors.forename: Fatih
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Sönmez
authors.forename: Ersoy
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Doğan
mesh_terms: D015706:Bibliometrics; D002648:Child; D005060:Europe; D006801:Humans; D010036:Otolaryngology; D010372:Pediatrics; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014421:Turkey