Publications from the Caribbean in the health sciences

ABSTRACT

The investigation reported here examined scientific publications from Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago over the period 1976-1990. Its purpose was to provide new information about Caribbean research in the health field through assessment of published works. To this end a broad array of journal subject categories was examined using SCISEARCH, an international index of medical and scientific literature. In all, 1,712 titles (articles