Difficulties in Accessing the List and Full Text of the Defended PhD Theses from Medical Schools: a Retrospective Case Study from Croatia.

Objective: To conduct scientometric studies on PhD ("Doctor of Philosophy") theses (i.e., doctoral theses), researchers should be able to access the theses.

[What are relative scales and how can they be used in evaluation of Croatian science?].

The most appropriate way of evaluating the quality of scientific research is peer review by competent and objective colleagues. An objective review, however, is practically impossible within a small scientific community like the Croatian one, and the only solution in this case is internationalization of the process. In order to upgrade the objectivity of the evaluation, bibliometric/scientiometric indicators can be used, provided they are interpreted by experts in the field.

Papers published by members of the Croatian Academy of Medical Sciences, registered in international bibliographic data bases in the period 1986-1990.

Scientific productivity of the CAMS members was analyzed according to the number of papers published in periodicals covered by international Medline and Science Citation Index data bases from 1986 to 1990. Results showed the mean scientific productivity per CAMS member, and the relationship between scientific productivity and age, field of medicine or respective biomedical discipline. The pattern of scientific productivity was also found to change, when analyzed according to Medline or SCI data bases in separate.

The effect of allogeneic presensitization on Hya-isograft survival.

The effect of allogeneic presensitization on Hya isograft survival was reinvestigated in C57BL, C3H and (C57BL x C3H)F1 females. Three weeks after transplantation of H-2 or non-H-2 differing female or male skin grafts, a syngeneic male skin graft (Hya isograft) was transplanted onto female recipients. C57BL and (C57BL x C3H)F1 females pretreated with a female skin graft of any origin rejected the C57BL male isograft as a first-set, while females pretreated with a male skin graft rejected the C57BL male isograft in a second-set manner.