[Breast pathology: evaluation of the Portuguese scientific activity based on bibliometric indicators].

Introduction And Objectives: The bibliometric analysis of the Portuguese scientific production in the field of breast pathology since 1995 to date (July 2005) provides an overview on the developed scientific activity on this subject and allows the characterisation of some relevant features as well as its evolution along the studied period.

Material And Methods: Documents collected, reflecting the national scientific production in the field of breast pathology between 1995 and July 2005 in 3 databases, Medline (with search interface PubMed), Science Citation Index and Index of the Portuguese medical journals were studied. We applied quantitative and qualitative bibliometric indicators to the found number of articles and the journals where they were published.