Aim: A bibliometric study is performed to evaluate Turkey's international contribution in terms of number of publications in English, included in Science Citation Index Expanded TM (SCI-E) regarding pediatric ultrasound imaging.
Materials and Methods:ISI Web of Knowledge®-Science® was used for the analysis. All scientific papers published included in SCI-E in English from 1975 to 2015 were analyzed. A retrospective search was performed using the terms ''pediatric ultrasonography'', ''pediatric ultrasound'', ''children ultrasonography'', ''children ultrasound'', ''neonatal ultrasonography'', ''neonatal ultrasound'', ''neonate ultrasonography'', ''neonate ultrasound'', ''newborn ultrasonography'', ''newborn ultrasound'', ''infant ultrasonography'', ''infant ultrasound'', ''adolescent ultrasonography'', and ''adolescent ultrasound''. The results were further analyzed in terms of number of papers for each country, types of documentation, number of publications and citations per year, journal names, and institutions. Collected data from the comparison periods was statistically analyzed using the chi-square test.
Conclusion:Turkey showed a significant positive trend in publishing papers in the scientific field of pediatric ultrasonography in the last thirty years and the rank of Turkey among other countries improved in recent decades. This can be considered as an indicator for progression of Turkey in the field of pediatric ultrasound.