Role of Orvosi Hetilap in the development of Hungarian gastroenterology

Table 1 Publishing timeline of the national medical journals

1798: Journal de Medécine	Paris
1809: Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine	London
1812: New England Journal of Medicine	Boston
1823: The Lancet	London
1840: British Medical Journal	London
1850: Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift	Vienna
1854: Nederlander Tijdschrift der Geeneskunde	Amsterdam-Utrecht
1857: Orvosi Hetilap	Budapest
1875: Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift	Stuttgart
1883: Journal of American Medical Association	Chicago
1893: La Presse Médicale	Paris

Table 2 Editorial periods of OH

Period	Editor-in-chief	Specialty	Duration (yr)
1857-1888	L. Markusovszky (1815-1893)	Public health	32
1889-1905	E. Hőgyes (1847-1906)	Bacteriologist, pharmacologist	16
1905-1922	M. Lenhossék (1863-1937)	Anatomist	17
1923-1944	Z. Vámossy (1868-1953)	Pharmacologist	21
1948-1989	T. Trencséni (1907-1996)	Internist	41
1989-2008	J. Fehér	Gastroenterologist, hepatologist	20

OH:Orvosi Hetilap.

Table 3 Rate of gastroenterology publications in OH between 1857 and 2008 n (%)

Editorial period	Total original articles	Gastroenterology articles	Total journal reviews	Gastroenterology article reviews
1857-1888	3416	312 (9.1)	1386	126 (9.0)
1888-1904	2102	143 (6.8)	435	39 (8.9)
1905-1922	2906	406 (13.9)	7332	658 (8.9)
1923-1944	7757	696 (8.9)	11 586	937 (8.0)
1948-1989	19 583	2175 (11.1)	31 489	3965 (12.5)
1989-2008	7682	1067 (13.8)	19 575	1698 (8.6)
Total No.	43 446	4799 (11.1)	71 803	7423 (10.3)

Table 4 Thematic breakdown of full papers published in OH between 1857 and 2008¹n (%)

Subject	Articles
Anatomy	18 (0.30)
Pathology	121 (2.02)
Physiology	132 (2.20)
Esophagus	194 (3.24)
Stomach	559 (9.65)
Small bowel	298 (4.98)
Appendix	93 (1.55)
Large bowel	268 (4.63)
Liver	871 (14.57)
Biliary tract	346 (5.79)
Pancreas	354 (5.92)
Peritoneum	102 (1.70)
Tumors	195 (3.26)
Surgery	524 (8.92)
Radiology	165 (2.76)
Endoscopy	246 (4.11)
Ultrasound	69 (1.25)
Pediatrics	185 (3.09)
Laboratory medicine	145 (2.42)
Peptic ulcer	189 (3.16)
Inflammatory bowel diseases	102 (1.70)
Viral hepatitis	219 (3.96)
Infectious diseases (non-epidemic)	200 (3.34)
Laparoscopic surgery	27 (0.45)
Transplantation	39 (0.67)
Genetics	61 (1.02)
General topics	252 (4.28)
Total	5974 (100)

¹Some articles are included more than once, based on keywords in the title.

Table 5 Introduction of some major gastroenterology achievements in Western countries and Hungary[2-6]

Achievement	International application (year, author, location)	Hungarian application (year, author, location)
Rigid gastroscopy	1868 (A. Kussmaul, Freiburg)	1902 (J. Zimmermann, Budapest)
Gastric resection	1880 (L. Rydiger, Vienna)	1900 (M. Herczel, Budapest)
Radiography	1895 (K. Roentgen, Würzburg)	1896 (J. Klupathy, Budapest)
Cholecystectomy	1881 (C. Langenbuch, Berlin)	1889 (D. Velits, Budapest)
Liver biopsy	1938 (I. Silverman, New York)	1948 (L. Friedrich, Budapest)
Vagotomy	1943 (L. Dragstedt, Chicago)	1948 (E. Hedri, Budapest)
B-mode abdominal ultrasound	1957 (I. McDonald, London)	1973 (Á. Szebeni, Budapest)
Fiberoptic gastroscopy	1958 (B. Hirschowitz, Birmingham, USA)	1965 (T. Jávor, Debrecen)
Fiberoptic colonoscopy	1970 (F. Matsunaga, Tokyo)	1972 (L. Simon, Jászberény)
Endoscopic retrograde cholangio-pancreatography	1970 (I. Oi, Tokyo)	1971 (L. Sáfrány, Budapest)
Endoscopic sphincterotomy	1973 (M. Classen, Munich)	1976 (J. Papp, Budapest)
Liver transplantation	1967 (T. Starzl, Denver)	1995 F. Perner, Budapest)
Laparoscopic cholecystectomy	1985 (T. Mühe, Bobelein)	1990 (I. Kiss, Pécs)
Capsule endoscopy	2000 (P. Swain, London)	2002 (I. Rácz, Győr)

Table 6 Profile of foreign journal reviews in OH between 1857 and 2008

Editorial period	No. of articles reviewed	No. of journals	English (%)	German (%)	French (%)	Other Languages (%)
1857-1888	211	86	17.9	52.5	15.9	13.2
1888-1904	381	113	12.6	64.5	17.7	5.2
1905-1922	658	112	15.6	62.2	14.6	7.6
1922-1944	936	121	19.6	57.1	16.9	6.4
1948-1989	3965	178	52.4	38.4	2.9	6.3
1989-2008	1698	113	64.4	31.0	2.9	0.9
Total	7849	268	30.4	50.9	12.1	6.6

Table 7 Ranking of core journals reviewed in OH between 1857 and 2008 n (%)

Journal	Articles reviewed
Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift	1147 (31.2)
Lancet	584 (15.9)
British Medical Journal	410 (11.2)
New England Journal of Medicine	313 (8.5)
American Journal of Roentgenology	263 (7.1)
Zentralblatt für Chirurgie	227 (6.1)
Radiology	204 (5.5)
Schweizerische Medizinische Wochenschrift	194 (5.2)
Journal of American Medical Association	167 (4.5)
Münchener Medizinische Wochenschrift	157 (4.2)
Total	3666 (100)