Comparing Knowledge Production of Hospitals at City Level in Turkey

Every innovation in the form of a new technology, application, product or service in the field of medical sciences either saves a life or enables to make more steps in extending human lifespan. measuring and evaluating the innovations that occur in medicine and healthcare is very important from the viewpoint of building turkey’s national innovation policies. scientific publications, patents, and projects that occur in collaboration with hospitals, research institutes and universities are among the factors that determine innovation performance in the field of medicine. this study descriptively evaluates the contribution of the institutions of the ministry of health and universities to turkey’s scientific publication performance in other words innovativeness at the city level. five cities including ankara, istanbul, izmir, konya and adana at both university hospitals and training and research hospitals levels form the majority of scientific production that have addresses in turkey. there is a great amount of differences on the research areas that university hospitals and training and research hospitals focus on at both hospital and city levels. while ankara gets the highest share in the amount of publications that are addressed turkey, university hospitals and medical faculty form a high percentage of the publications at both total amount, and also determine the research focus to a large extent in smaller cities.