ASSESSMENT OF USE OF STATISTICAL METHODS IN SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES OF THE KAZAKHSTAN’S MEDICAL JOURNALS

Abstract

Medical journals of Kazakhstan intergrate to the international space, however today none of them has Science Citation Index and doesn't enter into the Web of knowledge database, according to this, articles published in Kazakhstan’s journals can't come to the international level. The said problem determines the necessity of an analysis and the identification of the key problems, which “prevents” from spreading the research results achieved by the Kazakhstan scientists. The work objective is to evaluate the use of statistics and appropriate software by the authors of original articles in such journals as recommended by the Kazakh National Centre for Scientific & Technical Expertise and included in the Database elibrary.kz. We have taken a certain standard statistical analysis methods of investigation. In the evaluation of the research design, the authors of articles mostly used as follows: a series of cases, a control study and description of specific cases. A scope of selection in Section “Research Methods” was only calculated in 21,8 % of cases, and in 63,9 % of cases there was no description how the selection was carried out.