National Peer-reviewed Journals Research Articles

İç Hastalıkları Ana Bilim Dalları Tarafından Hematoloji Konusunda Yapılan Uzmanlık Tezlerinin Yayınlanma Durumu

Amaç: Bu çalışma ülkemizdeki tıp fakültelerinin iç hastalıkları anabilim dalları tarafından yayınlanan hematoloji konusundaki tıpta uzmanlık tezlerinin bilimsel dergilerde yayınlanma durumunun değerlendirilmesi amacıyla planlanmıştır. Gereç ve Yöntemler: Çalışmaya Yüksek Öğretim Kurulu Başkanlığı Ulusal Tez Merkezi internet veri tabanında (https://tez.yok.gov.tr/UlusalTezMerkezi/) yer alan, ülkemizdeki tüm tıp fakültelerinin iç hastalıkları anabilim dalları tarafından hematoloji konusunda sisteme girilmiş 2015-2017 yılları arasında yayınlanmış 186 adet iç hastalıkları tıpta uzmanlık tezi dâhil edildi. Bu tezler yapıldıkları yıl, sayfa sayısı, yazar cinsiyeti, tez danışmanın cinsiyeti ve akademik unvanı yayınlanma durumu, yayına ait özellikler açısından incelendi. Bulgular: Çalışmamızda yer alan 2015-2017 yılları arasında hematoloji konusunda yapılmış 186 adet iç hastalıkları tıpta uzmanlık tezinin 57’si (%30.6) yayınlanmıştı. Bu yayınların 18’i (%31.6) SCI/SCI-E, 21’i (%36.8) uluslararası diğer indekslerde, 14’ü (%24.6) Ulakbim TR, 4’ü (%7.0) ulusal hakemli dergilerde yayınlanmıştı. Tezlerin 141’i (%75.8) retrospektif, 45’i (%24.2) ise prospektif çalışma idi. Retrospektif çalışmaların 37’si (%26.2), prospektif çalışmaların 20’si (%44.4) yayınlanmıştı. Prospektif çalışmaların yayınlanma oranı retrospektif çalışmalara göre daha yüksek bulundu (p=0.021). Sonuçlar: Sonuç olarak çalışmamızda iç hastalıkları tıpta uzmanlık eğitimi sonunda hematoloji konusunda yazılan tıpta uzmanlık tezlerinin makale olarak yayınlanma oranının diğer klinik branşlardan yüksek olduğu ortaya konulmuştur.

Comparison of State and Private Universities in Turkiye in terms of Instruction and R& D Regarding the Reports of the Turkish Council of Higher Education (YÖK)

Turkish Council of Higher Education (YÖK) started to publish University Monitoring and Evaluation General Reports since 2019. Three reports (2019-2020-2021) have been published. Average annual data of state and private universities in Turkey are available in these reports. These reports also include data about various aspects of university education under the titles of Instruction and Research & Development (R&D). This study aims to determine pros and cons of state and private universities for Turkish and international university applicants by comparing the data averages of the 2019, 2020 and 2021 reports about the Instruction and the Research & Development (R&D) of both university types. Under the Instruction title; data about number of accredited undergraduate programs, occupancy rate of the programs, number of students participating in teknokent (technopole) or technology transfer office (TTO) projects, number of programs in the top 5% of the public servant selection exam (KPSS), number of international symposiums, congresses or artistic exhibitions, number of social responsibility projects implemented by students, number of industrial projects implemented by students and number of printed books and e-publications for each student were examined. Under the Research & Development title; data about number of publications published in national peer-reviewed journals and in SCI, SCI-Expanded, SSCI and AHCI indexed journals, number of cited publications in the top 10%, number of applied and granted patents, utility models and designs, number of R&D projects supported by national and international institutions and organizations, ratio of investment budget spent on R&D, income except for subsidy, innovation and product development income from laboratory services within the scope of R&D and number of joint projects with industry were examined. Document analysis method was used in the study as a qualitative research method. Document analysis includes the analysis of written materials containing information about the phenomenon or facts to be investigated. In the field of education: Textbooks, instructional regulations, internal and external correspondence, official documents... can be used as data source (Yıldırım and Şimşek, 2013, pp.217-218). Data averages of state and private universities were evaluated. Data differences among universities in same category were not included. The results shows that both state and private universities have pros and cons in terms of instruction and R&D, but state universities are advantageous regarding data numbers and diversity. While private universities are profit-oriented and attach importance to individual development, state universities are more collaborative and are community-oriented. Keywords: state university, private university, universities in Turkiye, instruction, R&D

Publication rates of congress abstracts is associated with abstract quality: Evaluation of Turkish National Medical Education Congresses and Symposia between 2010 and 2014 using MERSQI

There are many parameters that could be used to evaluate the quality of scientific meetings such as publication rates of meeting abstracts as full-text articles after the meeting or scoring with validated quality scales/tools that evaluate individual papers, project proposals, or submitted abstracts. This study aimed to determine the full-text publication rates for abstracts presented at Turkish National Medical Education Congresses and Symposia and to assess the quality of given abstracts. s presented at national medical education congresses and symposia between 2010 and 2014 in Türkiye were evaluated. Initially, the abstracts were evaluated if they were published as full-text articles in international and national peer-reviewed journals following the meeting. Secondly, the quality of presented abstracts was assessed with the Medical Education Research Study Quality Instrument (MERSQI) scale. Overall publication rate for the abstracts was 11.3%. The publication rate of oral and poster presentations were 26.6% and 8.1%, respectively. Oral presentations had a statistically higher publication rate than poster presentations (p = .000). The mean MERSQI score for abstracts was 7.73 ± 2.59. The oral presentations had higher MERSQI mean scores than poster presentations (8.28 ± 2.46 vs. 7.61 ± 2.6; p = .032). Similarly, published abstracts had a significantly higher score compared to unpublished abstracts (10.07 ± 2.74 vs. 7.43 ± 2.41; p = .000). Interestingly, there was no statistical difference between the mean MERSQI scores of the published oral and poster presentations (9.33 ± 2.45 vs. 10.61 ± 2.72; p = .101). This study showed that the main factor for a meeting abstract to be published as a full-text article is the scientific quality of the study. The quality of presentations at annual medical education meetings in Türkiye were low compared with international meetings which did not improve over five years. An institutional policy that would set quality standards for medical education research and increase the awareness of researchers on the topic might help improve the design, execution, and reporting of such studies in Türkiye. The MERSQI could be a valuable tool to monitor the quality of submitted abstracts and to increase the awareness of novice researchers on high quality research.

Rates of publication of FCPS dissertations in international and national peer-review journals among residents at AKUH; A cross sectional review of 15 years.

To see the rate of publication of postgraduate residents' dissertation. The single-centre retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted at the Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, and comprised research publications from the residents of the departments of Surgery and Medicine who graduated between 2005 and 2020. The surgical subspecialties included Otolaryngology, Ophthalmology, Dentistry, General Surgery, Orthopaedics, Paediatric Surgery, Urology, Plastic Surgery and Cardiovascular Surgery. Data comprised demographics, current institution, current designation, information on dissertation/paper publication, topic of study, year of completion of dissertation, input from the research department, delay in exam due to incomplete dissertation and whether the paper got published in national or international journal. Data was analysed using SPSS 21. Of the 103 subjects, 70(68%) were males and 33(32%) were females, while 73(70.8%) belonged to surgical specialties and 30(29.2%) were from non-surgical specialties. Of the 22(22.9%) who were able to convert, 12(54.5%) publications were carried by national peer-reviewed journals, while 10(45.4%) were carried by international journals; 9(40.9%) unpaid peer review journals and 13(59.1%) paid journals. Delay in exam due to incomplete dissertation was faced by only 16(16.6%) candidates. The rate of publication for resident dissertation was found to be low.

The Consortium of Australian Academic Psychiatrists for Independent Policy Research and Analysis (CAPIPRA): Aims, model, outputs, and implications for clinical academic advocacy.

We describe an independent model of clinical academic mental health services research that is able to provide synthesised views for medico-political organisations that are engaged in advocacy for national and state evidence-based policy and planning of mental healthcare. CAPIPRA focuses on independent research and policy analysis using publicly available datasets on population mental health at national and state/territory levels, published in international and national peer-reviewed journals (>50 papers since 2019). We partner with medico-political organisations in evidence-based advocacy across a wide range of issues.

Who Dominates the Discourses of the Past? Gender, Occupational Affiliation, and Multivocality in North American Archaeology Publishing

Equity and the dissemination of knowledge remain major challenges in science. Peer-reviewed journal publications are generally the most cited, yet certain groups dominate in archaeology. Such uniformity of voice profoundly limits not only who conveys the past but also what parts of the material record are narrated and/or go untold. This study examines multiple participation metrics in archaeology and explores the intersections of gender and occupational affiliation in peer-reviewed (high time cost) and non-peer-reviewed (reduced time cost) journals. We find that although women and compliance archaeologists remain poorly represented in regional and national peer-reviewed journals, they are much more active in unrefereed publications. We review feminist and theoretical explanations for inequities in science and argue that (1) the persistent underrepresentation of women and of compliance professionals in archaeological publishing are structurally linked processes and (2) such trends can be best understood in light of the existing structure of American archaeology and the cost-benefit realities of publishing for people in various sectors of the discipline. We suggest that nonrefereed venues offer a pathway to multivocality and help to address epistemic injustices, and we discuss methods for widening the current narrow demographic of men and academics who persist in dominating discourses.

Study protocol for a prospective cohort study examining the predictive potential of dynamic symptom networks for the onset and progression of psychosis: the Mapping Individual Routes of Risk and Resilience (Mirorr) study

IntroductionOur current ability to predict the course and outcome of early psychotic symptoms is limited, hampering timely treatment. To improve our understanding of the development of psychosis, a different approach...

Examining the effects of enhanced provider–patient communication on postoperative tonsillectomy pain: protocol of a randomised controlled trial performed by nurses in daily clinical care

IntroductionPlacebo effects (true biopsychological effects not attributable to the active ingredients of medical technical interventions) can be attributed to several mechanisms, such as expectancy manipulation and empathy manipulation elicited by...

Protocol for the Northern babies longitudinal study: predicting postpartum depression and improving parent–infant interaction with The Newborn Behavioral Observation

IntroductionPostpartum depression (PPD) is a prevalent disorder. Studying the factors related to PPD will help to identify families at risk and provide preventive interventions. This can in turn improve the...

Population and development: a festschrift in honour of Professor K. A. P. Siddhisena, Department of Demography, University of Colombo edited by Lakshman Dissanayaka and Swarna Ukwatte

The Felicitation Volume in honour of Prof. Siddhisena titled Population and Development contains 16 articles, of which the first provides a biographical sketch of Emeritus Professor Siddhisena. In this biographical sketch, Dr. Sunetra Perera places on record the lifetime work of Prof. Siddhisena, which would enable junior academics and students to recognise his immense contribution to the discipline of Demography as an academic as well as an academic administrator and motivate them to emulate him for their own career development. It is followed by a list of Prof. Siddhisena’s publications in international and national peer-reviewed journals and research papers in conferences.The breadth of his academic interests span demography, poverty, livelihood support, labour force and manpower, alcoholism, trafficking of women and children, urbanisation and migration. It is significant that four of the chapters are contributions from eminent foreign academics with international repute: Graeme Hugo, former Australian Professorial Fellow, Professor of Geography and Director of the Australian Population and Migration Centre, University of Adeaide; Deborah S. Degraff, Professor, Department of Economics, Bowden College, Brunswick, USA, Rebecca Wong, Professor, University of Texas Medical Branch, Sealy Center on Aging, Galveston, Texas, USA; David Lucas and Barbara Edgar of the Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute, Australian National University and Gouranga Lal Dasvarma, Adjunct Associate Professor in Population Studies, School of Environment, Flinders University, Adelaide. Of the sixteen chapters, three focus on the elderly and aging, two on Sri Lankans in Australia, two on economic development, two on migration, and one each on under five mortality, differential educational attainment, morbidity and mortality in Sri Lanka, global poverty, development and conservation, cognitive/mental mapping for research and population growth and lawlessness in colonial Sri Lanka. As such it is a truly comprehensive volume spanning several major areas of concern.

Systematic Review of Surgical Literature from Resource-Limited Countries: Developing Strategies for Success.

Injuries and surgical diseases are leading causes of global mortality. We sought to identify successful strategies to augment surgical capacity and research endeavors in low-income countries (LIC's) based on existing peer-reviewed literature. A systematic review of literature from or pertaining to LIC's from January 2002 to December 2011 was performed. Variables analyzed included type of intervention performed, research methodology, and publication demographics such as surgical specialty, partnerships involved, authorship contribution, place and journal of publication. A total of 2049 articles met the inclusion criteria between 2002 and 2011. The two most common study methodologies performed were case series (44%) and case reports (18%). A total of 43% of publications were without outcome measures. Only 21% of all publications were authored by a collaboration of authors from low-income countries and developed country nationals. The five most common countries represented were Nepal (429), United States (408), England (170), Bangladesh (158), and Kenya (134). Furthermore, of countries evaluated, Nepal and Bangladesh were the only two with a specific national journal. Based on the results of this research, the following recommendations were made: (1) Describe, develop, and stimulate surgical research through national peer-reviewed journals, (2) Foster centers of excellence to promote robust research competencies, (3) Endorse partnerships across regions and institutions in the promotion of global surgery, and (4) Build on outcome-directed research.

From Poster Presentation to Publication: National Congress of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

The aims of this study were as follows: 1) to determine publication rate, time to publication, and study design of poster presentations accepted at the National Congress of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (NCCAP) and converted to publication and the degree of first author in a published article and journal index and 2) to investigate the relationship of these data with each other. The poster presentations of four congresses organized between 2005 and 2008 were investigated separately. The presentations were screened by taking into account the title and the first and second author in English and Turkish languages via PubMed and Google Academic databases. Published studies, time between presentation and publishing date, study design, degree of first author, and journal index of these studies were recorded. Fifty-four (25.2%) of 214 poster presentations were published in international and national peer-reviewed journals. Of the published articles, 74.1% (n=40) were research type and 61.1% (n=33) were found in the Science Citation Index (SCI) and Science Citation Index-Expanded (SCI-E) peer-reviewed journals. The first author in 42.6% (n=23) of published articles were assistant professors. The average time between presentation and publishing date was 30.72±18.89 months. Statistical differences were not determined between publication rate and study design; between time to publication and study type/study design, degree of first author, and journal index; and between journal index and study design and degree of first author (p>0.05). It was found that research articles were published significantly more by teaching staff than experts and other researchers (p<0.05). Compared with literature data, it was found that the time to publication was longer while the publication rate was similar for poster presentations in our congresses. Based on these results, it is important to create necessary conditions and encourage the researchers to publish the poster presentations presented in NCCAP.

Quantitative and qualitative analysis of four national otorhinolaryngology journals between 2002 and 2010

This study aims to perform a quantitative and qualitative analysis of four national peer-reviewed otorhinolaryngology journals between 2002 and 2010 and compare various parameters in 1990-1994 period. The number of authors and female authors, gender of first author, city and the institution where the article was submitted, number of references and national references were noted separately for each article in all issues of four national peer-reviewed journals in years 2002, 2005 and 2010. Language of articles was noted and they were grouped under six main headings based on their subjects. Quantitative analysis was performed considering evidence-based medicine principle and evidence levels of articles were noted between 1 and 5. Statistical analysis was performed using Pearson chi-square and one-way ANOVA tests. A total of 424 articles including 143 in 2002, 147 in 2005 and 134 in 2010 in four national otorhinolaryngology journals were evaluated. The number of authors per article was found to be 4.49, indicating no statistically significant difference between the years (p>0.05). The mean number of female authors per article was 0.85. When the institutions submitted articles were assessed, number of publications from university hospitals was higher than the education hospitals and other health care services; however, this difference was reduced in 2010. In the evaluation of cited references, the mean number of references and national references per article increased from 16.90 to 18.12 and from 1.54 to 1.68 in 2002 and 2010, respectively. According to the articles categorized to their main subjects, it was found that most of the publications were related to upper respiratory/digestive tract and neck and the least was related to facial plastic surgery. The qualitative analysis in terms of evidence-based medicine revealed no articles with level 1 evidence through three years studied. It will be useful to make similar periodical studies to improve the quality of otorhinolaryngology journals and related articles in Turkey.

How does size matter for science? Exploring the effects of research unit size on academics' scientific productivity and information exchange behaviors

This article analyzes the impact of research unit size on academics' scientific output and communication behavior with peers, controlling for individual and organizational characteristics, including the academics' engagement in teaching. Results show that research unit size does not influence total scientific output, but rather the scientific output profile of individual academics. Upon disaggregating the output we find that academics at larger research units publish more in international than in national peer-reviewed journals. This suggests that research unit size positively affects international visibility, a venue that may proxy for research quality. The analysis also shows that as research unit size increases, it influences academics' overall communication. Most importantly, the academics' information exchange with peers at both national and international levels is highest at larger research units, suggesting that research unit size facilitates contact with academics at both national and international institutions.