8.1 Publications

Over the period 1996-2010, Evaggelismos Hospital in Athens, the General Hospiral of Athens/LAIKO and the “Hospitals supervised by the Ministry of National Defense”/MOD HOSPITALS had the greatest volume of publications consistently across the Category "Public Health Institutions". In terms of publication activity, the relative performance of the rest of the institutions in this category varied (Figure 8.1.1).

Figure 8.1.1

Figure 8.1.2 presents the number of publications and its rate of change for each of the 16 Health Institutions from 1996 to 2010.

Figrue 8.1.2

Rate of change: 1+[(number of publications in year "n" - number of publications in year "n-1") / number of publications in year "n-1"]. The rate is 1, if the number of publications is the same accross the years compared.

Focusing on the latest 5-year period 2006-2010, Figure 8.1.3 presents the number of publications for each of the 16 Health Institutions, as well as for each institution’s share of publications in the category “Public Health Institutions”. The “Evaggelismos Hospital of Athens”/EVAGGELISMOS had 722 publications and a share of 9.1%. This was followed by the “Hospitals supervised by the Ministry of National Defense”/MOD HOSPITALS with 634 publications and the both with a share of 8%. The share for the rest institutions accounted for less than 5% of publications in the category.

Figure 8.1.3

Figure 8.1.4 shows that, during the period 2006-2010, the rate of change in publication output in the "Public Health Institutions" Category was higher for the following hospitals: the SOTIRIA General Hospital of Athens/SOTIRIA, the G. PAPAGEORGIOU General Hospital/G. PAPAGEORGIOU, the KORGIALENIO-BENAKIO Hospital of Athens/KORGIALENIO, the G. Papanikolaou General Hospital of Thessaloniki/G. PAPANIKOLAOU, the Tzaneio General Hospital of Piraeus/TZANEIO, the G. Gennimatas General Hospital of Athens/G. GENNIMATAS,  the Hospitals supervised by Ministry of National Defense/MOD HOSPITALS, and the "Aghia Sophia" Children’s Hospital/AGHIA SOPHIA. However, for the majority of institutions, the number of publications was rather low and ranged over time.

Figure 8.1.4

Rate of change: 1+[(number of publications in year "2010" - number of publications in year "2006") / number of publications in year "2006"]. The rate is 1, if the number of publications is the same accross the years compared.