Zameer Hussain Baladi.
Bibliometric study of Published Articles in Journal of Surgery Pakistan.
J Surg Pak Jan ;22(2):56-60.

Objective: To analyze various types of articles published, countries of their origin and institutes contributing to Journal of Surgery Pakistan (JSP). Study design: Descriptive study. Place & Duration of study: Library of College of Applied Medical Sciences, King Saud Bin Abdul Aziz University for Health Sciences Riyadh Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, from October 2016 to January 2017. Methodology: Articles published under various categories; namely original articles, review articles and case reports published in JSP between 1997 - 2015 were downloaded from the websites of Journal of Surgery Pakistan and PakMediNet for statistical analysis. Data were entered in to MS Office (Excel 2010). Results: JSP published 19 volumes and 76 issues with 936 articles during the period 1997 ? 2015. These articles were contributed by 3116 authors. The highest number of articles were from Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre Karachi (n=177 - 18.9%). Majority (n=816 - 87.1%) of articles had multiple authors. A gender-wise comparison among the contributing authors revealed that 2334 (74.9%) of the authors were males and 810 (25.9%) females. Of the 21 classifications of medical subject headings, specialties and sub-specialties used for analysis, general surgery ranked highest by having 210 (22.4%) articles related to the subject. Conclusions: JSP published regularly its issues and contribution from all over Pakistan was found. It covered most of the specialties related to subject of surgery as reflection of its name.

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