title: Systematic Analysis of Theses in the Field of Emergency Medicine in Turkey.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aim of this study is to systematically evaluate the theses in the field of emergency medicine in Turkey and to determine whether they were published as a scientific paper.
  
  
  METHODS
  This is a retrospective observational study. Theses in the field of emergency medicine between 1998 and 2013 were browsed from the internet database of National Thesis Center (Council of Higher Education). Study type, both if it was in the field of emergency, or if it was published and the journal's scope of published studies were assessed and recorded in the study chart.
  
  
  RESULTS
  579 theses were included in the study. 27.1% of them were published and 14.9% of them were published in SCI/SCI-E journals. Advisors of theses were emergency medicine specialists in 67.6% of theses and 493 (85.1%) of them were in the field of emergency medicine. 77.4% of theses were observational and 20.9% were experimental study. Most of the experimental studies (72.7%, n=88) were animal studies.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  It was concluded that very few theses in the field of emergency medicine were published in journals that were indexed in SCI/SCI-E.
authors.affiliation: Van Military Hospital, Van, Turkey.
authors.forename: Erdem
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Cevik
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, Bagcilar Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Banu
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Karakus Yilmaz
authors.affiliation: Etimesgut Military Hospital; Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Yahya Ayhan
authors.initials: YA
authors.lastname: Acar
authors.affiliation: Zirve University EBN Medical Faculty, Gaziantep, Turkey.
authors.forename: Mehmet
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dokur
keywords: Emergency medicine; systematic analysis; theses