Citation rate of articles published by staffs of faculty of medicine Siriraj Hospital during 1991-1995.

Articles published by staff of the Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, which were referred to in international journals during 1991-1995, were retrieved from the Medline database. The citation rates were calculated in terms of reference articles per year and per person per year for each department. The total number of references was 1,185 during the period reviewed, or 192, 180, 235, 288, and 290 times in the year 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 and 1995 respectively. Accordingly, the citation rates per person per year were calculated to be 0.29, 0.27, 0.35, 0.43 and 0.43 times. The Department of Immunology gained the highest average rate during the dive-year review period, which was 3.71 times per person per year. The Departments of Medicine and Dermatology posted the second and third highest rates which were 1.31 and 1.03 respectively. When the citation rate was calculated separately by per-clinical and clinical departments and year, the citation rates were found be higher for the per-clinical department every year, The average citation rate over the whole five years for the Faculty was 0.35 times per person per year, which indicates an increasing trend when compared with 0.243 times per person per years during 1985-1994.

Articles published by staffs of faculty of medicine Siriraj Hospital during 1992-1995.

Articles published by faculty staffs during 1992-1995 in various journals were collected and analysed. Total number of the articles published during the 4-year period was 1,387 articles. Four hundred and twenty-five, 446, 295, and 221 articles were published in 1992, 1993, 1994 and 1995 respectively or 0.66, 0.69, 0.46 and 0.34 article per person per year. On average, clinical departments published more articles than preclinical departments. Her Majesty’s Cardiac Centre, Department of Pediatrics, Department of Medicine, Department of Dermatology, department of Blood Transfusion and Medicine and Department of Microbiology published more than one article per person per year. The most common journal that published articles of the faculty staffs was Siriraj Hospital Gazette. The top three peer-reviewed journals that published articles from the faculty staff, were Journal of the Medical Association of Thailand, Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health and Asian Pacific Journal of Allergy and Immunology. Department of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics and Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation contributed for 20.5, 10.6 and 9.1 percents of the publications in these journals respectively.