FRI-02 PROFESSIONAL CULTURES IN MEDICINE? INTERNATIONAL UROLOGICAL JOURNALS AND THE ROLE OF BIBLIOGRAPHIES IN SCHAPING CENTRES AND PERIPHERIES IN SCIENTIFIC UROLOGY

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You have accessJournal of UrologyHistory of Urology I (Podium)1 Apr 2014FRI-02 PROFESSIONAL CULTURES IN MEDICINE? INTERNATIONAL UROLOGICAL JOURNALS AND THE ROLE OF BIBLIOGRAPHIES IN SCHAPING CENTRES AND PERIPHERIES IN SCIENTIFIC UROLOGY Thorsten Halling, Friedrich Moll, and Heiner Fangerau Thorsten HallingThorsten Halling More articles by this author , Friedrich MollFriedrich Moll More articles by this author , and Heiner FangerauHeiner Fangerau More articles by this author View All Author Informationhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.juro.2014.02.1720AboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints ShareFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail Introduction and Objectives During the 18th and 19th centuries journals became the standard format of scientific communication in medicine. Since the last third of the 19th century several med. subdisciplines had begun to publish their own journals in their attempts to strive for professional differentiation. In urology there was such an early attempt to establish an international journal: “Folia Urologica” was founded in 1907, based on a huge editorial board, which reflected large parts of the relevant scientific world in this time. It included urologists like J Israel, J Albarran or HH Young. World War I ended this project. Whereas before the war journals publishing in German were the central organs of publication (such as Langenbeck's Archives of Clinical Surgery) now US-American and English journals began to dominate the field. Especially after the 2nd World War it became an indispensable prerequisite to publish in English-speaking journals to be recognized scientifically. Publication indices and bibliographies played a crucial role during this process. The paper will examine and reconstruct the consequences of this process for the international urological community. Methods A citation analysis of five international journals (Urologia Internationalis; International urology and nephrology; World Journal of Urology; European Urology; Urology (SIU)) will be combined with a social network analysis in order to test the shifting influence of urol. journals on the global scientific community of urologists and on the variable perception of centres and peripheries of urological research during the 20th century. Results Based on the measure of most cited articles the Journal of Urology became the unquestioned dominant journal in urological science at the end of the 20th century. However, other journals during the 20th century have also played an important role in urological communication. Sometimes it is difficult to assess their impact with classical methods of examining bibliographic databases, counting citations and calculating impact factors. In particular, there seems to be a regional bias in the most popular databases, favoring North American periodicals compared with European literature on urology Conclusions As a consequence the urol.community needs to be aware of the fact that the results of citation analyses and the impact factor only reflect a preselected part discourse. Further sources of assessing the validity of a urological paper still need to be included in the evaluation of urol. information as reflected in journals. © 2014FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Volume 191Issue 4SApril 2014Page: e621 Advertisement Copyright & Permissions© 2014MetricsAuthor Information Thorsten Halling More articles by this author Friedrich Moll More articles by this author Heiner Fangerau More articles by this author Expand All Advertisement Advertisement PDF downloadLoading ...