Table 1.
Distribution of publications by characteristics of the theses.
| Publications | ||||
| Characteristics of the theses | No publications n (%) |
Finnish n (%) |
English n (%) |
All n (%) |
| Field | ||||
| ▪ Clinical medicine | 104 (72.7) | 6 (4.2) | 33 (23.1) | 143 (100) |
| ▪ Biomedicine | 4 (44.4) | 0 (0) | 5 (55.6) | 9 (100) |
| ▪ Diagnostics or pharmacology | 23 (69.7) | 0 (0) | 10 (30.3) | 33 (100) |
| ▪ Public health science and general practice | 20 (90.9) | 1 (4.5) | 1 (4.5) | 22 (100) |
| ▪ Dentistry | 44 (89.8) | 1 (2.0) | 4 (8.2) | 49 (100) |
| Type | ||||
| ▪ Quantitative | 81 (68.1) | 3 (2.5) | 35 (29.4) | 119 (100) |
| ▪ Brief quantitative | 53 (89.8) | 2 (3.4) | 4 (6.8) | 59 (100) |
| ▪ Literature review | 29 (100) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 29 (100) |
| ▪ Other | 32 (65.3) | 3 (6.1) | 14 (28.6) | 49 (100) |
| Supervisor | ||||
| ▪ Professor | 68 (68.7) | 4 (4.0) | 27 (27.3) | 99 (100) |
| ▪ Adjunct professor | 46 (82.1) | 1 (1.8) | 9 (16.1) | 56 (100) |
| ▪ Other | 67 (84.8) | 2 (2.5) | 10 (12.7) | 79 (100) |
| ▪ Unknown | 14 (63.6) | 1 (4.5) | 7 (31.8) | 22 (100) |
| Structure of scientific article | ||||
| ▪ No | 47 (95.9) | 2 (4.1) | 0 (0) | 49 (100) |
| ▪ Yes | 148 (76.7) | 6 (3.1) | 39 (20.2) | 193 (100) |
| ▪ Printed publication | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 14 (100) | 14 (100) |
| Language | ||||
| ▪ Finnish or Swedish | 169 (91.4) | 8 (4.3) | 8 (4.3) | 185 (100) |
| ▪ English | 26 (36.6) | 0 (0) | 45 (63.4) | 71 (100) |
| Technical quality | ||||
| ▪ Poor | 49 (89.1) | 3 (5.5) | 3 (5.5) | 55 (100) |
| ▪ Good | 103 (83.1) | 3 (2.4) | 18 (14.5) | 124 (100) |
| ▪ Excellent | 43 (68.3) | 2 (3.2) | 18 (28.6) | 63 (100) |
| ▪ Printed publication | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 14 (100) | 14 (100) |
| Total | 195 (76.2) | 8 (3.1) | 53 (20.7) | 256 |