Military Medicine Publications: What has Happened in the Past Two Decades?

Military medical personnel, like all other physician specialists, face the challenge of keeping updated with developments in their field of expertise, in view of the great amount of new medical information published in the literature. The availability of the Internet has triggered tremendous changes...

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Published in:Interactive journal of medical research 2014-05, Vol.3 (2), p.e10-e10
Main Authors: Yavnai, Nirit, Huerta-Hartal, Michael, Mimouni, Francis, Pinkert, Moshe, Dagan, David, Kreiss, Yitshak
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accessibility
Clinical information
Expertise
Internet
Medical literature
Military personnel
Original Paper
Personnel
Search engines
Specialists
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Summary:Military medical personnel, like all other physician specialists, face the challenge of keeping updated with developments in their field of expertise, in view of the great amount of new medical information published in the literature. The availability of the Internet has triggered tremendous changes in publication characteristics, and in some fields, the number of publications has increased substantially. The emergence of electronic open access journals and the improvement in Web search engines has triggered a significant change in the publication processes and in accessibility of information. The objective of this study was to characterize the temporal trends in the number and types of publications in military medicine in the medical literature. We searched all PubMed-registered publications from January 1, 1990 to December 31, 2010 using the keywords "military" or "army". We used the publication tag in PubMed to identify and examine major publication types. The trends were tested using the Mann-Kendall test for trend. Our search yielded 44,443 publications in military medicine during the evaluation period. Overall, the number of publications showed two distinct phases over time: (1) a moderate increase from 1990 to 2001 with a mean annual increase of 2.78% (r(2)=.79, P
ISSN:1929-073X
1929-073X
1438-8871
DOI:10.2196/ijmr.2748