TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2015//
TI  - Pediatric burns research: a history or an evolution?
JO  - Burns: journal of the International Society for Burn Injuries
A1  - McDowell, Dermot T.
A1  - Hyland, Ela J.
A1  - Harvey, John G.
A1  - Holland, Andrew J. A.
SP  - 1556
EP  - 1561
VL  - 41
IS  - 7
N2  - BACKGROUND/PURPOSE: Pediatric burns research has increasingly been recognized as a sub-specialty of its own. The aim of this study was to assess and analyze the publication patterns of the pediatric burns literature over the last six decades. <br><br>METHODS: A search strategy for the Web of Science database was designed for pediatric burns publications, with output analyzed between two periods: 1945-1999 (period 1) and 2000-2013 (period 2). <br><br>RESULTS: There were 1133 and 1194 publications for periods 1 (1945-1999) and 2 (2000-2013), respectively. The mean citation counts of the top 50 publications were 77 (range 45-278) and 49 (range 33-145) for periods 1 and 2, respectively. There were 26 and 20 authors with two or more publications in the top 50 list in periods 1 and 2, respectively. Of these there are two authors that have published 47 papers in both combined time-periods. There were 29 and 9 journals that have published 50% of the publications for time-period 1 and 2 respectively. In period 2, there were two burns journals that have published 37.2% of the total articles. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Pediatric burns research has evolved from an associated, dispersed entity into a consolidated sub-specialty that has been successfully integrated into mainstream burns journals.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0305-4179
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.burns.2015.04.014
ID  - ref1
ER  -