title: Pediatric burns research: A history or an evolution?
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Pediatric burns research has increasingly been recognized as a sub-specialty of its own. The aim of this study was to assess and analyze the publication patterns of the pediatric burns literature over the last six decades.
  
  
  METHODS
  A search strategy for the Web of Science database was designed for pediatric burns publications, with output analyzed between two periods: 1945-1999 (period 1) and 2000-2013 (period 2).
  
  
  RESULTS
  There were 1133 and 1194 publications for periods 1 (1945-1999) and 2 (2000-2013), respectively. The mean citation counts of the top 50 publications were 77 (range 45-278) and 49 (range 33-145) for periods 1 and 2, respectively. There were 26 and 20 authors with two or more publications in the top 50 list in periods 1 and 2, respectively. Of these there are two authors that have published 47 papers in both combined time-periods. There were 29 and 9 journals that have published 50% of the publications for time-period 1 and 2 respectively. In period 2, there were two burns journals that have published 37.2% of the total articles.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Pediatric burns research has evolved from an associated, dispersed entity into a consolidated sub-specialty that has been successfully integrated into mainstream burns journals.
authors.affiliation: The Children's Hospital at Westmead Burns Research Institute, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Cnr Hawkesbury Rd and Hainsworth St, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia; Department of Pediatric Surgery, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Cnr Hawkesbury Rd and Hainsworth St, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia. Electronic address: dermcd@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Dermot T
authors.initials: DT
authors.lastname: McDowell
authors.affiliation: The Children's Hospital at Westmead Burns Research Institute, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Cnr Hawkesbury Rd and Hainsworth St, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia; Department of Pediatric Surgery, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Cnr Hawkesbury Rd and Hainsworth St, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia.
authors.forename: Ela J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Hyland
authors.affiliation: The Children's Hospital at Westmead Burns Research Institute, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Cnr Hawkesbury Rd and Hainsworth St, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia; Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, NSW, Australia; Department of Pediatric Surgery, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Cnr Hawkesbury Rd and Hainsworth St, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia.
authors.forename: John G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Harvey
authors.affiliation: The Children's Hospital at Westmead Burns Research Institute, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Cnr Hawkesbury Rd and Hainsworth St, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia; Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, NSW, Australia; Department of Pediatric Surgery, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Cnr Hawkesbury Rd and Hainsworth St, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia.
authors.forename: Andrew J A
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Holland
mesh_terms: D015706:Bibliometrics; D035843:Biomedical Research; D002056:Burns; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D010372:Pediatrics; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data* / Q000639:trends; D011643:Publishing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data* / Q000639:trends
keywords: Bibliometrics; Burns; Pediatric