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Leigh Delbridge, MD
Sydney, Australia

Arch Surg. 2001;136:1352.

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The article by Tompkins and colleagues describes changes in national content for the 6 top English-language general surgical journals. The most striking finding is the increasing internationalization of content. In the United States, for example, the number of national articles decreased from 87.5% to 68.8% throughout 15 years and constituted the minority of freely submitted articles in 3 journals. Likewise, the number of national articles decreased in the one British journal from 74.8% to 47.1%. The authors raise the question of whether reduced research funding is a significant factor in the decreasing number of national articles. It is much more likely that the phenomenon is simply the direct result of globalization of surgical communication, a point acknowledged by the authors. Surgical researchers in Europe and Asia are now fully aware of the need for their work to be published in an English-language journal to receive international recognition. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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