Interdisciplinary, interinstitutional and international collaboration of family medicine researchers in Taiwan.

ABSTRACT: The family medicine researches flourished worldwide in the past decade. However, the collaborative patterns of family medicine publications had not been reported. Our study analyzed the collaborative activity of family medicine researchers in Taiwan. We focused on the types of collaboration among disciplines, institutions and countries. We searched "family medicine" AND "Taiwan" in address field from Web of Science and documented the disciplines, institutions and countries of all authors. We analyzed the collaborative patterns of family medicine researchers in Taiwan from 2010 to 2014. The journal's impact factor of each article in the same publication year was also retrieved. Among 1,217 articles from 2010 to 2014, interdisciplinary collaboration existed in 1,185 (97.3%) articles, interin

SUBMITTER: Lin YH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4614802 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature