의학논문 데이터베이스 검색 및 활용의 실제

이춘실 대한의사협회 2010 대한의사협회지 Vol.53 No.8

It is essential to search medical information precisely and efficiently in every aspect of medical practices and research activities. The growth of the medical literature has been tremendous in recent years, as exemplified by the annual growth of 710,000 records in MEDLINE in 2009, thus increasing the complexities of literature searching. Yet database search environments are changing toward very user-friendly ways facilitated by various hypertext linking capabilities such as “LinkOuts” to full texts and “reference linkings” among articles using Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs). Once a direct search of a keyword is initiated, a searcher can continue searching endlessly and seamlessly by simply clicking various links provided in the records retrieved. Search behaviors of researchers are changing accordingly, avoiding any complex or advanced searches. The basics of database search methods are described in this paper. A brief overview of major medical databases is given by database type to illustrate the differences in the information retrievable from such databases: MEDLINE/PubMed and KoreaMed are abstract databases; SCI/Web of Science, SCOPUS and KoMCI are citation indexes; and PubMed Central and Synapse are full text databases. Some of the advanced search features of each database are also noted: searches using MeSH terms in PubMed and KoreaMed; differences in the “related documents” algorithms of PubMed and SCI; citation analysis using “analyze results”in Web of Science and SCOPUS; and citation tracking in Synapse and PubMed. The Journal of the Korean Medical Association (JKMA) records are used for the illustration of such features.

국내외 의학논문 데이터베이스 현황

허선 대한의사협회 2010 대한의사협회지 Vol.53 No.8

Researchers and journal editors need to be familiar with the major and most widely-used indexing databases. The specific and sensitive searching ability of medical databases always help researchers to avoid redundant studies as well as to provide background to their work. The important medical databases from Korea are KoreaMed, KoreaMed Synapse, KoMCI and KMBase. Major international databases are WPRIM, Medline/PubMed, PubMed Central,Web of Science, SCOPUS, digital object identifier/CrossRef, Google Scholar, EMBASE, Biosis Previews, Worldwidescience.org, and the Cochrane Library. Although every database from Korea is freely accessible to anyone, some international databases require subscription fees. This is the reason why PubMed and PubMed Central, free access databases, have become the most important and widely used ones internationally. Easier access to databases not only from the Web but also from mobile environment applications will continue to develop. Physicians and researchers should be able to use both Web and mobile databases for better patient care and research. Editors should try to add their journals not only to databases from Korea but also to international databases in order to promote the health of all mankind by disseminating the medical information.

PubMed Central as a platform for the survival of open-access biomedical society journals published in Korea

허선 한국과학학술지편집인협의회 2021 Science Editing Vol.8 No.2

Twenty-one years have passed since PubMed Central (PMC) launched. The present case study describes Korean editors’ history of participation in PMC and their contributions to PMC. The three main turning points in the history of Korean editors’ involvement with PMC were as follows: first, the production of PMC XML files and deposition starting in 2008; second, thorough evaluations of applying journals since 2014; and third, the feasibility of non-English journals being indexed in PMC starting in 2019. The importance of PMC is further shown by the fact that KoreaMed Synapse, a full-text XML database of biomedical journals in Korea that was launched in 2007, was created by benchmarking PMC. Scholarly societies or institutes publish 724 (34.2%) of the 2,119 PMC journals without embargo in June 2021. Out of those 724 journals, 127 (17.5%) are published in Korea. PMC has helped local journals receive more citations from researchers worldwide, increasing their likelihood of being indexed in international databases. The number of submissions from international researchers has increased, thereby making it possible for journals to achieve international diversity. As the best full-text platform of biomedical journals, PMC has provided an excellent opportunity for biomedical journal editors in Korea to change their journals’ language to English and produce full-text JATS (Journal Article Tag Suite) XML files. These factors have made Korea the second-ranked country in terms of no-embargo PMC journals published by academic societies or institutes.

Bibliometric Analysis of the Korean Journal of Parasitology

Choon Shil Lee 대한기생충학열대의학회 2009 The Korean Journal of Parasitology Vol.47 No.-

The Journal of Minimally Invasive Surgery is indexed by PubMed Central in 2022

박선진 대한내시경로봇외과학회 2022 Journal of Minimally Invasive Surgery Vol.25 No.3

The Journal of Minimally Invasive Surgery (JMIS) is the official journal of the Korean Society of EndoLaparoscopic & Robotic Surgery (formerly the Korean Society of Endoscopic and Laparoscopic Surgeons). The editorial board of JMIS has been trying steadily for several years to be indexed by the international literature databases. As a first step, JMIS has been deposited into PubMed Central in 2022. Here I would like to show you the path that JMIS has been following over the years.

Open Access Publishing in India: Coverage, Relevance, and Future Perspectives

Durga Prasanna Misra,Vikas Agarwal 대한의학회 2019 Journal of Korean medical science Vol.34 No.27

Open access (OA) publishing is a recent phenomenon in scientific publishing, enabling free access to knowledge worldwide. In the Indian context, OA to science has been facilitated by government-funded repositories of student and doctoral theses, and many Indian society journals are published with platinum OA. The proportion of OA publications from India is significant in a global context, and Indian journals are increasingly available on OA repositories such as Pubmed Central, and Directory of Open Access Journals. However, OA in India faces numerous challenges, including low-quality or predatory OA journals, and the paucity of funds to afford gold OA publication charges. There is a need to increase awareness amongst Indian academics regarding publication practices, including OA, and its potential benefits, and utilize this modality of publication whenever feasible, as in publicly-funded research, or when platinum OA is available, while avoiding falling prey to poor quality OA journals.

Increase in frequency of citation by SCIE journals of non-Medline journals after listing in an open access full-text database

Geum Hee Jeong,Sun Huh 한국과학학술지편집인협의회 2014 Science Editing Vol.1 No.1

We hypothesized that it is not open access status but rather exposure in the PubMed platform that affects citation frequency in medical journals. In November 2008, medical journals from Korea began to be added to PubMed Central (PMC). Therefore, it would be interesting to know whether or not their impact factor based on Web of Science has increased since the journals were listed in PMC/PubMed. To answer this question, a citation analysis of seven journals that have been indexed in PMC since 2008 or 2009 was done. Only non-Medline journals were selected and the impact factors of five Medline journals were compared. The impact factor was calculated via Web of Science. Journal Citation Reports (JCR) data were used if the data of the target journals were provided in JCR. Trends for the impact factors of different years were analyzed using dBSTAT ver. 5.0. There has been an increasing rates of the impact factor for the seven non-Medline journals, 1.92 in 2011 over 2010 ; 3.27 in 2010 over 2009 ; 1.12 in 2012 over 2011. As for the five Medline journals, the increasing rate in 2010 over 2009 was 1.18 ; however, those of 2011 over 2010 and 2012 over 2011 were 1.01 and 1.04 respectively. The Science Citation Index Expanded impact factor of medical journals published in Korea can be increased if those journals are published in English and listed in PMC. This is an effect of the platform in which the journals are listed and not just an effect of free access.