Which articles and which topics in the forensic sciences are most highly cited?

Forensic science is a multidisciplinary field, which covers many branches of the pure, the applied and the biomedical sciences. Writing-up and publishing research findings helps to enhance the reputation of the investigators and the laboratories where the work was done. The number of times an article is cited in the reference lists of other articles is generally accepted as a mark of distinction. Indeed, citation analysis has become widely used in research assessment of individual scientists, university departments and entire nations. This article concerns the most highly cited papers published in the Journal of Forensic Sciences (JFS) between 1956 and 2005. These were identified with the help of Web-of-Science, which is the on-line version of Science Citation Index, produced by Thomson Institute for Scientific Information (Thomson ISI) with head offices in Philadelphia, USA. This database tracks, among other things, the annual citation records of articles published in several thousand scientific journals worldwide. Those JFS articles accumulating 50 or more citations were identified and rank-ordered according to the total number of citations. These articles were also evaluated according to the name of first author, the subject category of the article, the country of origin and the pattern of co-authorship. This search strategy located 46 articles cited between 50 and 292 times since they first appeared in print. The most highly cited paper by far was by Kasai, Nakamura and White (USA and Japan) concerning DNA profiling and the application of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in forensic science. Some forensic scientists appeared as first author on two to three highly cited articles, namely Wetli (USA), Budowle (USA) and Comey (USA). When the highly cited articles were sub-divided into subject category, 15 were identified as coming from toxicology, closely followed by criminalistics (14 articles), pathology (nine articles), physical anthropology (five articles), forensic psychiatry (two articles) and one from odontology. The number of co-authors on these highly cited articles ranged from one to nine and the names of some investigators appeared on as many as four highly cited papers. The vast majority of papers originated from US laboratories although five came from Japan, two each from Sweden and Canada and there was also a joint USA-Swiss collaboration. The Thompson ISI citation databases provide unique tools for tracking citations to individual articles and impact and citation records of scholarly journals.     

地方卫生立法中存在问题刍议

地方卫生立法在我国立法体制中占有重要位置。本文通过实证研究,分析了我国地方卫生立法中存在的法言法语问题、语表文句(所谓语表文句是指语言表述、文章句法)问题、法律依据问题、交叉重复问题、抵触碰车问题,以期为不断提高地方卫生立法质量,完善我国卫生法律体系提供裨益。     

关于加强大学生心理健康教育工作的思考

加强大学生心理健康教育工作是新形势下全面贯彻党的教育方针、实施素质教育的重要举措,是促进大学生全面发展的重要途径和手段,是时代发展的需要,是社会全面发展对培养高素质创新人才的必然要求。     

过敏性反应死亡法医病理学研究

目的探讨过敏性反应死亡的法医病理学特点,从而解决困扰法医学工作者对过敏性反应死后诊断的鉴定要点。方法对华西法医鉴定中心1995―2004年尸检检出的26例药物过敏性死亡案例进行回顾性分析。结果本组26例药物过敏所致死亡案例的死者年龄以31-40岁的例数最多,占了38%;26例因药物过敏所致死亡的案例中,12例为青霉素类药物过敏,为引起过敏最常见的药物;而药物使用途径引起过敏反应死亡的案例中以注射为主,共20例;以个体诊所及基层医院多发生过敏反应死亡的案例;18例在使用药物后出现典型的严重的过敏性反应的临床表现;15例为在用药后半小时内发生死亡;病理解剖可见咽喉粘膜水肿20例,其中咽喉腔阻塞大于75%2例,50￣75%5例,25～50%7例,小于25%6例,显微镜下检查嗜酸性粒细胞浸润咽喉粘膜者21例、肺组织18例;6例血清IgE检测值呈现出显著的升高。结论过敏性反应的死后诊断应结合死者的生前临床病史,死亡时间,生前临床表现,病理解剖发现及血清IgE检测值综合分析。     

EU Regulation of Medical Devices and Pharmaceuticals in Comparative Perspective

This paper provides a comparison of European Union regulatory policy for pharmaceuticals and medical devices. The discussion highlights key similarities and differences in regulatory approach for the two sectors. More importantly, it explores the balance that has been struck between public health, health care, and industrial policy as “competing” objectives within the respective regulatory regimes. It is argued that, despite both sectors being affected by the same institutional rules and constraints at the EU level, and both being central to the delivery of high-quality health care in Europe, there are a surprising number of differences between the regulatory frameworks. That this stems in part from their different “launch” times, hence different institutional conditions of regulation, and commensurate political climates, as well as reflecting different aims and goals among member-state and EU-level policy makers, are among the paper's main conclusions.     

应用单细胞凝胶电泳测定人血痕淋巴细胞降解的实验研究

目的探讨血痕形成时间与其DNA降解的淋巴细胞出现率的关系。方法应用单细胞凝胶电泳(SCGE)技术结合荧光显微镜和专业的计算机图像分析技术,测定离体72h内不同时间段的血痕中彗星样淋巴细胞出现率。结果获得人离体血液经不同放置时间间隔后,经LUC IA图像分析系统采集得到荧光图像,并获得体现DNA降解趋势的二项式回归方程y=-0.0178X2+2.4623X+8.1098,r2=0.9522,具有高度的统计学意义。结论72h内的人血DNA降解的淋巴细胞出现率与血痕形成时间之间具有高度的线性相关。     

液相微萃取-气相色谱法检测尿液中三唑仑药物

目的建立液相微萃取与气相色谱联用技术快速分析尿液中三唑仑的方法。方法本方法考察了萃取溶剂、体积、萃取时间、萃取振荡速度等条件对液相微萃取的影响,优化的实验条件为:萃取溶剂为0.5ml三氯甲烷,萃取时间25min,振荡速度200r/min。结果采用本文所建立的方法,三唑仑回收率为88.0%~90.5%。结论实验结果表明该方法简便、快速、灵敏、消耗有机溶剂少,是尿液中三唑仑检测的一种有效方法。     

乙醇对家兔脑基底动脉零应力状态影响关系的研究

目的探讨乙醇对家免脑基底动脉零应力状态的影响。方法通过酒精灌胃的方法建立家兔血液乙醇浓度梯度的动物模型,测定各组家兔局部脑微区的血流灌注量;并通过测量血管张开角的方法测定各组家兔脑基底动脉的零压力状态。结果家兔灌酒后局部脑微区血流量值明显增大,至30min后,各组家兔脑血流量基本恒定;血液乙醇浓度持续增高,灌胃后1.5~2h,血液乙醇浓度达到峰值。灌酒后局部脑微区血流量值和血液乙醇浓度与灌酒量存在正相关关系。各组家兔酒精灌2h后基底动脉张开角均明显降低,各组之间差异存在统计学意义(P<0.05),且随灌胃量的增大基底动脉张开角降低越大。结论家兔基底动脉零应力状态随血液酒精浓度的增加而降低。     

电击伤与电击死的法医学研究进展

电击伤和电击死是法医实践工作中常遇到的案例,尽管有许多学者从电击伤(死)后各个组织器官的形态学以及分子水平的变化进行了大量的研究,但实际检案中,法医工作者对其诊断(主要是对无电流斑的死因推断)仍没有统一的标准和直接客观的特异性指标,且对电击工具的推断、生前电击和死后电击的鉴别以及电击死后死亡时间的判断都有一定的困难,故其一直是法医学研究的热点。本文针对以上问题对电击伤(死)的法医学研究进展做一综述,为对其进一步研究提供一些思路。