Elena Guardiola (1, 2), Xavier Sánchez-Carbonell (2), Anna Belles (2), Marta Beranuy (2)

1. Table 3. Journals that published 40 or more articles. Table 2. Language of publication of the 4,825 articles on drug dependence from the EU indexed in PsycINFO (1976 - 2000) grouped by 5-year periods. Table 1. Articles on drug dependence from the EU indexed in PsycINFO (1976 – 2000). Total 1976- 1980 1981-1985 1986 - 1990 1991 - 1995 1996 -2000 1976 - 2000 Language Journal 1976-1980 n (%) 1981-1985 n (%) n 1986-1990 n (%) 1991-1995 n (%) 1996-2000 n (%) n (%) Addiction 760 Country n n n n n   n (%) Alcohol and Alcoholism 293 Danish 0 (0) 5 (0.8) 2 (0.2) 1 (0.1) 1 (0.1) 9 (0.2) Austria 4 4 14 24 28 74 (1.5) Drug and Alcohol Dependence 220 Dutch 2 (0.6) 38 (6.1) 56 (5.1) 29 (2.3) 5 (0.3) 130 (2.7) Belgium 13 7 10 10 17 57 (1.2) British Journal of Psychiatry 148 English 226 (72.4) 403 (64.3) 789 (72.2) 1,059 (84.7) 1,317 (85.4) 3,794 (78.6) Denmark 2 19 22 21 18 82 (1.7) Substance Use and Misuse 142 Finnish 0 (0) 1 (0,2) 0 (0) 3 (0.2) 0 (0) 4 (0.1) Finland 12 29 44 64 57 206 (4.3) Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 133 French 20 (6.4) 49 (7.8) 88 (8.1) 18 (1.4) 31 (2.0) 219 (4.5) France 10 48 99 51 78 286 (5.9) Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 129 Greek 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 3 (0.2) 1 (0.1) 4 (0.1) Germany 46 73 91 101 194 505 (10.5) Addiction Research 102 German 36 (11.5) 47 (7.5) 47 (4.3) 31 (2.5) 47 (3.0) 208 (4.3) G. Britain 147 208 443 499 567 1864 (38.6) Tijdschrift voor Alcohol, Drugs en andere Psychotrope Stoffen 99 Italian 14 (4.5) 26 (4.1) 42 (3.8) 19 (1.5) 21 (1.4) 122 (2.5) Greece 1 0 7 16 9 33 (0.7) Portuguese 0 (0) 1 (0.2) 7 (0.6) 0 (0) 0 (0) 8 (0.2) Journal of Studies on Alcohol 78 Ireland 4 9 13 23 16 65 (1.3) Spanish 14 (4.5) 51 (8.1) 61 (5.6) 84 (6.7) 119 (7.7) 329 (6.8) Addictive Behaviors 70 Italy 21 45 80 90 111 347 (7.2) Swedish 0 (0) 6 (1.0) 1 (0.1) 2 (0.2) 0 (0) 9 (0.2) Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy 63 Luxembourg 0 0 0 0 0 0 Others 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 1 (0.1) 1 (0.1) 2 (0) Netherlands 3 46 79 88 130 346 (7.2) Psychopharmacology 56 Total 312 627 1,093 1,250 1,543 4,825 Portugal 0 3 6 2 3 14 (0.3) Psychologie Médicale 52 Spain 15 50 83 161 192 501 (10.4) Actas Luso Españolas de Neurología, … 50 Sweden 34 86 102 100 123 445 (9.2) Adicciones 49 Total 312 627 1,093 1,250 1,543 4,825 Journal of Drug Issues 44 Psychological Reports 41 Analysis of Spanish Scientific Publications on Drug Dependence during the period 1976-2000 in the European Union Context Elena Guardiola (1, 2), Xavier Sánchez-Carbonell (2), Anna Belles (2), Marta Beranuy (2) (1)Medical Information and Documentation Department. Q. F. Bayer. Pau Claris, 196. 08029 Barcelona - Spain (2)FPCEE Blanquerna.Universitat Ramon Llull. Císter, 24-30. 08022 Barcelona - Spain Introduction Drug dependence is a big problem in the European Union (EU). Research on drug dependence has increased in the last decades in Spain. A method to evaluate scientific productivity in a specific field consists on the analysis of publications indexed in bibliographic databases. Main goal of this study was to evaluate Spanish scientific publications on drug dependence during 25 years and to compare them with publications in the EU in the same period. Methods The Spanish publications in the field of drug dependence and drug abuse indexed in PsycINFO published form 1976 to 2000 were retrieved and analysed (evolution through years, authors, number of authors, journals, topics and language of publication) and then compared with data from the rest of EU countries (14 countries). A descriptive statistical analysis was performed and graphical displays were prepared. Results A total of 4,825 articles were retrieved; 501 (10,4%) from Spain and 4,324 from other EU countries. Spanish articles increased from 15 (4,8%) in 1976-1980 to 192 (12,4%) in 1996-2000. This means that Spain scientific production in this area multiplied by 12,8 while the EU by 4,6. Only two countries (UK and Germany) published more articles than Spain (Table 1, Figure 1, 2). Main language in EU publications was English (n=3,794); publications in Spanish increased dramatically in the last years (to n=329) (Table 2); authors that published in Spanish were mainly from Spain. Thirty journals published 25 or more articles from EU; 4 of them are published in Spain: Actas Lusoespañolas de Neurología, Psiquiatría y Ciencias Afines (that published 50 articles), Adicciones (49), Psiquis: Revista de Psiquiatría, Psicología y Psicosomática (36) and Anales de Psiquiatría (25) (Table 3). Authors that published in Spanish journals were mainly from Spain. Spanish articles were published mainly in Spanish- and English-language journals. Only one Spanish author was among the 25 authors who published more than 20 articles (18 were from UK, 3 from Sweden, 2 from Germany, 1 from Finland and 1 from Spain). Conclusions ·        PsycINFO is a useful database to compare scientific productivity between countries as it includes author addresses in all records ·        Scientific interest in drug dependence has grown in the EU during the 25 years studied. These results confirm the tendency observed in other studies and show that Spanish research on drug dependence has increased; this increase is bigger than the increase observed in the EU ·        Spain is among EU countries with a greater number of publications on drug dependence ·        Language of publication was Spanish in many publications from Spain, while EU countries published mainly in English ·        Spanish journals have published a lot of EU articles ·        At least four Spanish journals have to be considered in health libraries dealing with drug dependence: Actas Lusoespañolas de Neurología, Psiquiatría y Ciencias Afines, Adicciones, Psiquis: Revista de Psiquiatría, Psicología y Psicosomática and Anales de Psiquiatría Guardiola E, Sánchez-Carbonell X, Belles A, Beranuy M. Analysis of Spanish scientific publications on drug dependence during the period 1976-2000 in the European Union context. 9th European Conference of Medical and Health Libraries. Santander, September 20t – 25, 2004