Aim. The aim of this study was to analyze publication activity of Macedonian
biomedical scientists reported in BioMedExperts and to propose improvements
and corrections in order to present Macedonian science more objectively.
Material and methods. For this investigation BiomedExperts database was
searched for scientific experts in a total of 145 countries, as well as scientific profiles
originating from Republic of Macedonia (June 17, 2008). Affiliation in Macedonia
concerned number and %, first authors, middle authors, last authors and coauthors
were analyzed.
Results. Macedonian authors with 410 papers contribute with 0.006% in the
BiomedExperts. All neighboring countries, except Albania (0.001%), have higher
percentage of scientific papers in BiomedExperts: Greece (0.468%), Serbia
(0.111%), and Bulgaria (0.092%). We can see that only 54 scientists are presented
under the name of Republic of Macedonia. They published 825 scientific papers,
from which 580 are affiliated with the Republic of Macedonia (70.3%). Most of the
Macedonian biomedical scientific authors (7.50) are middle authors, much less are
first authors (4.06) and the rest of the authors are last authors (3.72). Macedonian
biomedical scientists in average have 14.69 co-authors in their scientific papers.
Conclusion. Macedonian biomedical scientists are not adequately represented in
BiomedExperts database and scientists are encouraged to register, log in, and
correct personal profiles.