title: Turkish Publications in Science Citation Index and Citation Index-Expanded Indexed Journals in the Field of Anaesthesiology: A Bibliographic Analysis.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Our study aimed to assess Turkish publications in Science Citation Index (SCI) and Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-E) indexed journals in the field of 'anaesthesiology'.
  
  
  METHODS
  Journals related to 'anaesthesiology' in the Science Citation Index-Expanded database of 'Thomson Reuter Web of Science' were searched. The search engine of Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) Web of Science (WoS) was used in the advanced mode by typing 'IS=ISSN number' to identify publications in the journal. By typing 'IS=ISSN number AND CU=Turkey', Turkish papers on anaesthesiology were found. If Turkish and non-Turkish authors had collaborated, the article was included in the search when the corresponding author had provided a Turkey-based address. The catalogue information and statistics were used to determine Turkish publications as the percentage of total publications and the annual mean number of Turkish publications. In WoS, 'SU=anesthesiology' was used to determine the number, country, year and topic distributions of publications from 1975 to date and within the last 10 years. The citation numbers and h-indices were determined based on the country for publications within the last 10 years.
  
  
  RESULTS
  From 1975 to the early 2000s Turkey was 20thin the list of countries with highest number of publications on anaesthesiology, however in the last 10 years Turkey moved up to 18thplace. Its mean citation number has been 4.64, and it remains the 2ndlowest country pertaining to citations among the 22 countries with the most number of publications. According to the percentage of publications in the field of anaesthesiology, the journals with highest rate of Turkish publications were Revista Brasileira de Anestesiologia, European Journal of Anaesthesiology and Journal of Anesthesia.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In the field of anaesthesiology, the highest number of articles from Turkey was published in Revista Brasileira de Anestesiologia, European Journal of Anaesthesiology and Journal of Anesthesia. The mean citation number from these publications was 4.64.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesiology and Reanimation, Dokuz Eylül University School of Medicine, İzmir, Turkey.
authors.forename: Şule
authors.initials: Ş
authors.lastname: Özbilgin
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesiology and Reanimation, Division of Intensive Care, Dokuz Eylül University School of Medicine, İzmir, Turkey.
authors.forename: Volkan
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Hancı
keywords: Anaesthesiology; Science Citation Index; Science Citation Index Expanded; Turkey