Original scientific paper

Croatian Bibliometric Analysis, 2000–2007

Dan S. Radut
Sanz-Valero Javier

Abstract

To develop search filters and retrieve information estimating the Croatian scientific output (SO) focusing on Public
Health (PH) and Preventive Medicine (PM) in MEDLINE. A PubMed search of the MEDLINE database was performed
to retrieve articles added to this database between 2000 and 2007. Search filters inspired by previous strategies were applied
involving ’geographical’, ’place of publication’, ’subject’ and ’language of publication’ aspects. An evaluation of the
geographical filter performance was done and sensitivity and specificity were calculated. There were obtained publications
in several languages, originated in Croatia, published in Croatia and/or abroad. The Croatian SO in the field of
PH-PM was obtained for the same period of time by combining search filters. The evaluation of the filter performance
showed sensitivity 95.56% and specificity 100%. The filters constructed permitted the retrieval of the Croatian eight years
research output. Increased tendency was observed in the global SO evolution and in the PH-PM area as well. The main
languages of publication were English and Croatian. This study is a contribution to research in the field of scientific documentation
and further analysis is recommended in constructing and developing search filters to retrieve and focus on
specific information.

Keywords

bibliometrics; databases; bibliographic; public health; preventive medicine; Croatia

Hrčak ID:

68928

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/68928

Publication date:

24.6.2011.

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