Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về hóa học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học quốc tế đề tài : Density-equalizing mapping and scientometric benchmarking of European allergy research | Scutaru et al. Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2010 5 2 http content 5 1 2 JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE AND TOXICOLOGY RESEARCH Open Access Density-equalizing mapping and scientometric benchmarking of European allergy research Cristian Scutaru1 2 David Quarcoo1 Mohannad Sakr1 Awfa Shami1 Khaled Al-Mutawakel1 Karin Vitzthum1 Tanja C Fischer3 Torsten Zuberbier3 Beatrix Groneberg-Kloft4 Abstract Due to the great socioeconomic burden of allergic diseases research in this field which is important for environmental medicine is currently increasing. Therefore the European Union has initiated the Global Allergy and Asthma European network GA2LEN . However despite increasing research in the past years detailed scientometric analyses have not been conducted so far. This study is the first scientometric analysis in a field of growing interest. It analyses scientific contributions in European allergy research between 2001 and 2007. Three different meetings of the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology were analysed for contributions and an increase in both the amount of research and networks was found. Introduction Allergic diseases are complex inflammatory conditions with an increasing prevalence and incidence 1 . They play a major role in environmental and occupational medicine and encompass . allergic bronchial asthma 2 allergic rhinitis 3 atopic dermatitis 4 food allergy 5 and allergic eye diseases 6 . The direct medical costs evolved from allergic diseases are increasing over the past decades. . bronchial asthma constitutes about an estimated 1-3 of the health fund of the and the economic burden amounts to roughly 12 billion dollar 7-9 . Also other allergic diseases exert a major toll on the heath care systems 10 . Despite the large amount of clinical and experimental studies already conducted on allergic diseases further insights into the molecular basics are required to develop new therapeutic strategies. .
