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| Title: | Amount of research interest in rare and common neurological conditions: bibliometric study |
| Authors: | Al-Shahi, Rustam
Will, Robert G
Warlow, Charles P |
| Issue Date: | 2001 |
| Citation: | Al-Shahi R, Will RG, Warlow CP. Amount of research interest in rare and common neurological conditions: bibliometric study. BMJ 2001;323:1461-2 |
| Publisher: | BMJ publishing group |
| Abstract: | Neurologists are often accused of being interested in
only rare incurable diseases. Although this may have
been true in the past, today's neurologists claim to be
more concerned with common disorders—but are
they really?
We derived a “publication ratio” to measure the amount
of research interest in 44 conditions representative of
the spectrum of neurological disorders, for which there
are population based estimates of frequency.1 We
divided the number of Medline papers published in
1998 about each condition (in which their MeSH term
was the focus of the paper) by a measure of their
frequency (incidence or prevalence) × 100 000. When
counting the number of publications, the investigator
(RAS) was blinded to the frequency of each disease |
| Keywords: | Neurology
publication |
| URI: | http://www.bmj.com
http://hdl.handle.net/1842/541 |
| Appears in Collections: | Molecular, Genetic and Population Health Sciences publications
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