SCIENTIFIC SEARCH ALGORITHM AND DOMESTIC ARTICLES STRUCTURE ON MEDICAL AND BIOLOGICAL PROBLEMS OF POPULATION IN THE FAR NORTH (2005–2018)
Authors: Evdokimov V. I. 
Published: October 2019

Relevance. The northern territories occupy more than 2/3 of the area of Russia. The Far North are the most important source of mineral and energy resources. Extraction and processing of mineral resources, development of the Far North are extremely laborious and require the attraction of labor resources from other regions of the country. Adverse climatic conditions have a significant impact on the lives of workers and members of their families, and therefore there is a need to study the biomedical characteristics of the indigenous and alien populations of the Far North regions.

Intention. To show the search algorithm for domestic scientific articles on biomedical problems of the population living in the Far North, and establish the structure of research areas in the array of publications.

Methodology. The research object was an electronic resource of domestic journal articles of the Electronic Scientific Library [https://elibrary.ru/]. The search query included: 1) type of publication – articles in magazines; 2) the subject of the search – in the title of articles, abstracts and keywords; 3) search words – “north, Arctic”, connected by the OR operator, which allows you to find search words separately or together; 3) taking into account morphology – any grammatical forms of search words; 4) years of publication – from 2005 to 2018; 5) thematic section – 78.00.00 “Medicine” of the State Russian Scientific and Scientific Technical Section. The articles were studied in a routine way and their content correlated with a specific code of the created classifier. Morbidity was correlated with the chapters of the International Classification of Diseases and Behavioral Disorders of the 10th revision (ICD 10).

Results and analysis. 4 956 responses to articles were found. The so called search noise was removed from the found array, which amounted to 27% in total. An array of 3618 domestic scientific journal articles indexed in the Russian Science Citation Index in 2005–2018 was created on biomedical problems in the population living in the regions of the Far North. With a very high coefficient of determination (R2 = 0.91), the polynomial trend of the articles showed an increase in the publication activity of the authors. Most articles were devoted to the problems of adaptation of the population to the conditions of the Far North (27.9 %), etiology, treatment and rehabilitation of diseases (23.4 %), clinical laboratory diagnostics (13.7 %) and hygiene (11.4 %). In the array of articles, most common topics were medical and biological problems of the indigenous population of the Far North (16.3 %), children (13.6%), adolescents (8.7 %) and shift workers (6 %). In the structure of information on the morbidity of the population of the Far North of Russia, diseases of the circulatory system (Chapter IX according to ICD 10) ranked 1st, some infectious and parasitic diseases (Chapter I) ranked 2nd, mental and behavior disorders (V) ranked 3rd, diseases of the respiratory system (X) ranked 4th, diseases of the endocrine system, eating disorders and metabolic disorders (IV) ranked 5th.

Conclusion. The scientific electronic library offer wide opportunities for scientists to avoid deadlock or parallel scientific research. As of August 11, 2019, 72.9 % of articles in an array on biomedical problems among the population living in the Far North of Russia had full texts open remotely for free to the registered users.