International scientific communications in the field of colorectal tumour markers

Table 15 Specialized journals with the term of “(bio)markers” in their titles in four data-bases

Rank	Journal title	WoS	Scopus	MEDLINE	BIOSIS	Total
1	Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev	0	0	0	15	15
2	Int J Biol Markers	5	0	11	9	131
3	Cancer Biomarkers	7	8	7	8	81
4	Disease Markers	5	5	5	5	51
5	J Tumor Marker Oncol	0	3	0	6	61
6	Biomarkers	2	0	2	2	21
7	Biomarkers Med	0	0	1	0	1
8	Genet Testing Mol Biomarkers	1	0	1	0	11
Total number of publications		20	16	27	45	511
Total number of journals		5	3	6	6	81
Countries of authors		19	13	20	20	251
Countries of journals		5	2	4	5	51
Articles in domestic journals		2	1	2	14	111
Articles in journals published abroad		18	15	25	31	401

¹The sum of unique items is smaller than the total amount of single items due their duplication in several data-bases.