Scientific Evaluation of the Fifteen Years of Turkish Journal of Family Practice
Journal Title: Scholars Journal of Applied Medical Sciences - Year 2016, Vol 4, Issue 12
Abstract
Aim of the study was to evaluate academically all articles published at Turkish Journal of Family Practice which is official publishing of Turkish Association of Family Physicians. The evaluation was done on basis of various properties also regarding different points of views on especially the abstracts of articles published at last fifteen years starting from the first issue. All articles published at Turkish Journal of Family Practice from 1997 to 2010 have been evaluated. During this evaluation, majority of articles have been acquired from the official internet site. Articles which weren’t available at internet media have been found as hardcovers. Since all of the articles were acquired, the ratio of participation at study is 100%. When the yearly distribution of articles was evaluated the highest number with 64 articles (14%) was published at 1997 which is the first year the Journal was published. It was observed that PDF forms of 185 articles (40.5 %) weren’t available at internet web site. It was seen that research articles were the most published article type with 159 articles (34.8%) followed by 87 articles (19%) which were reviews. One author articles were seen most with 180 articles (39.4%). First author of 226 articles (49.5%) were found to be working at a university hospital. While most articles were sent from İstanbul with 182 (39.8%) articles, second was Ankara with 30 (6.6%). Most of the articles were accepted to be published at a time interval of one to four months. Two corner stones at improvement of a medical field is a journal and an association of that field. It is important and valuable for family medicine is that Turkish Journal of Family Practice should be improving. The whole family physician group must continue their support at improving both the field and the Turkish Journal of Family Practice with high quality articles. Keywords:Family medicine,journal, publications.
Authors and Affiliations
Spec. Dr. Murat Altuntaş, Spec. Dr. TevfikTanju Yılmazer, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kurtuluş Öngel
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