OBJECTIVES This study aimed to compare the impact of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita, spending on Research and Development (R&D), number of universities, and Indexed Scientific Journals on total number of research documents (papers), citations per document and Hirsch index (H-index) in various science and social science subjects among Asian countries. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this stu...

In the last 3 decades, there has been a revolutionary change in the treatment of coronary artery disease. Through advances in equipment and technical skills, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is being applied to increasingly more complex patients and lesions. In particular, coronary stenting has emerged as an effective strategy to prevent recurrence after PCI. However, restenosis in the ...

Age structural transition is a process and a consequence of shifting age structure from a young aged population to old aged population. It is well known that economic growth in the East Asian countries was significantly contributed by demographic gift, that is decline in young aged population and increase in working aged population. However, little is known about the role of age structure chang...