The Medical Information Centre of Sofia is an established prestigeous institution of rising national and international importance for the medical sciences and public health. The present communication initiates a series of scientometric investigations using the Bulgarian Citation Index (BCI) data-base of the communication patterns in different branches of modern Bulgarian science. The analysis of Bulgarian medical journals published in 1993-1998 shows several essential features of the citation behaviour of the authors arguing of the still insufficient awareness of the national achievements. A total of 322 issues from 47 journal titles have been already processed. They contain 2028 citing articles with a total of 26092 references. The citations to Bulgarian publications amount to 2484 or 9,5 per cent of all the citations. The following journals are most-cited in this sample: "Revmatologiya" (107 citations), Savremenna meditsina (78), "Stomatologiya" (51), "Pediatriya" and "Farmatsiya" (40 citations each).
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