Turkish Neurosurgery 2005 , Vol 15 , Num 2
The Contribution of Turkish Neurosurgeons to Spine Surgery Literature
Ali ARSLANTAŞ1, Sait NADERİ2
1Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, Osmangazi University, Eskişehir,Turkey
2Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, Dokuz Eylül University, İzmir,Turkey
OBJECTIVE: To determine the number of articles originating in Turkey and published in international spine-related journals, to compare the number of spine-related publications of different disciplines, and to compare Turkey's spine-related publications with those of other countries.

MATERIAL AND METHODS: A five-year review of PubMed from 2000 to 2004 was performed. The reviewed journals were Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine, Spinal Cord, European Spine Journal, Spine, Journal of Spinal Disorders and Techniques, and The Spine Journal.

RESULTS: 182 papers had been published by Turkish authors in main spine-related journals during the study period. Turkish authors were among the most productive authors in Spine, Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine, and Spinal Cord. With respect to the published papers in Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine, articles originating from Turkey were second, sixth, fourth, third, and fourth in number in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004 respectively.

There was a dominance of papers written by neurosurgeons in Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine, and Spinal Cord while papers written by orthopaedic surgeons dominated in Spine.

COMMENT: There are an increasing number of papers from Turkey in western spinerelated and neurosurgical journals. We expect further contributions from our country to the medical literature in the future. Keywords : Spine, publication, Turkey

Corresponding author : Dr. Sait Naderi, snaderi@deu.edu.tr