[Comparative scientometric analysis of the Proceedings of XIII and XIV Congresses of Russian psychiatrists: narcology].

An analysis of the chapter "Medical help for the substance abuses, clinic, treatment of the abusers, biological studies of the abuses' in the Proceedings of the last two Russian congresses of psychiatrists (XIII in 2000 and XIV in 2005) reveals the vast multiplicity of topics. The majority of topics featured in the XIII Congress does not provide any follow-up information in the materials of the XIV Congress thus not allowing to figure out the tendencies or consequences in the field of addiction studies. There is no uniformity in the vocabulary used in the chapter analyzed.

[Methods of statistical analysis in psychiatric publications].

In order to evaluate the use of statistical methods, authors analyzed the articles in the "Korsakoff Journal of Neurology and Psychiatry" 2007-2008 (351 articles) and the "Social and Clinical Psychiatry" 2007 (73 articles). The data were compared to the results of the similar Russian study performed 15 and 20 years ago and the English-language study performed 25 years ago. It has been concluded that the share of articles without any statistical data analysis has decreased dramatically, the use of tables and graphs has become obligatory, t-test has become one of the most used (without any explication of its usage in many cases).