Mirko Spiroski
Institute of Immunobiology and Human Genetics, Faculty of Medicine,
University "Ss Kiril and Metodij", Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
Aim. The aim of this study was to analyze publication activity of
Macedonian biomedical scientists reported in BioMedExperts and to propose
improvements and corrections in order to present Macedonian science more
objectively.
Material and methods. For this investigation BiomedExperts database
was searched for scientific experts in a total of 145 countries, as well as
scientific profiles originating from Republic of Macedonia (June 17, 2008).
Affiliation in Macedonia concerned number and %, first authors, middle
authors, last authors and co-authors were analyzed.
Results. Macedonian authors with 410 papers contribute with 0.006% in
the BiomedExperts. All neighboring countries, except Albania (0.001%), have
higher percentage of scientific papers in BiomedExperts: Greece (0.468%),
Serbia (0.111%), and Bulgaria (0.092%). We can see that only 54 scientists
are presented under the name of Republic of Macedonia. They published 825
scientific papers, from which 580 are affiliated with the Republic of
Macedonia (70.3%). Most of the Macedonian biomedical scientific authors
(7.50) are middle authors, much less are first authors (4.06) and the rest
of the authors are last authors (3.72). Macedonian biomedical scientists in
average have 14.69 co-authors in their scientific papers.
Conclusion. Macedonian biomedical scientists are not adequately
represented in BiomedExperts database and scientists are encouraged to
register, log in, and correct personal profiles.
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