ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Productivity of Spanish emergency physicians in the 5-year periods from 2005 to 2009 and 2000-2004 ÒSCAR MIRÓ1,2, MARÍA ÁNGEL VALCÁRCEL DE LA IGLESIA3, REBECA MARÍA CREMADES PALLAS3, GUILLERMO BURILLO-PUTZE5, AGUSTÍN JULIÁN6, FRANCISCO JAVIER MARTÍN SÁNCHEZ4 Àrea de Urgencias, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Spain. 2Grupo de investigación “Urgencias: procesos y patologías” IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain. 3Unidad de Investigación, Servicio de Medicina Preventiva, 4Servicio de Urgencias, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain. 5Servicio de Urgencias, Hospital Univesitario de Canarias, Tenerife, España. 6Servicio de Urgencias, Hospital Virgen de la Salud, Toledo, Spain. 1

CORRESPONDENCE: Òscar Miró Àrea de Urgencias Hospital Clínic Villarroel, 170 08036 Barcelona, Spain E-mail: [email protected]

RECEIVED: 15-1-2012

ACCEPTED: 16-2-2012

CONFLICT OF INTEREST: None

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: The present study was partly supported by a grant from the Generalitat de Catalunya (SGR 2009/1385)

Objective: To analyze the productivity of Spanish emergency physicians from 2005 to 2009 and compare the results to the previous 5-year period. Methods: We used the Science Citation Index (SCI)-Expanded database and we manually revisted titles published from 2000 to 2007 in the Journal Emergencias. Articles authored by emergency physicians affiliated to institutions in Spain were included; conference presentations were excluded. For each article we recorded the following information: year of publication; journal; the journal's impact factor; type of article; affiliation of the first emergency physician coauthor named and the Spanish autonomous community where that physician worked; that emergency physician's place in the list of authors, university affiliation, and main type of work; the research topic; and collaboration or not with coauthors from other departments or facilities. Results: A total of 913 titles were published from 2005 to 2009, 38% more than in the previous 5 years (P=.10); 409 (43.2%) titles corresponded to original articles. The increases represented an annual growth in productivity of 7.3% (P