ArticleNaunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology2024
The Cold War in pharmacology: a bibliometric analysis of Berlin's contributions to Naunyn‑Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology (1947-1974).
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- Global research trends and emerging themes in amino acid deprivation based cancer therapy: a bibliometric and visualization study.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Pooled it
- Pharmacology through the lens of bibliometrics: global trends, research hotspots, and collaborations (2015-2026).Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2026Article
- A brief history of the German Society for Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology-an overview of available sources.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2026Review
- Biographical analysis of 32 pharmacologists persecuted under the Nazi regime: scientific careers between persecution, emigration, and new beginnings.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2025Article
- Scientific, bibliometric and biographical analysis of 71 Jewish and dissident pharmacologists persecuted in Germany between 1933 and 1945.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2025Article
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Abstract
After World War II, Berlin was divided into the West, controlled by The United States, the UK, and France, and the East, controlled by the Soviet Union, resulting in a Cold War for decades. This bibliometric study analyzes the influence of the Cold War on pharmacological research in Berlin by evaluating publication patterns in Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology from 1947 to 1974 (n = 383). The publications highlight the political disparities in scientific output, exacerbated by the founding of the Free University of Berlin (FUB) as a countermeasure to Soviet repression, promoting academic freedom in West-Berlin. Researchers in West-Berlin published many more papers in Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology than researchers in East-Berlin and received much more citations. West-Berlin adopted English as a scientific language much more rapidly than East-Berlin. West-Berlin and East-Berlin focused on totally different research topics. This paper demonstrates how political freedom, financial support, and internationalization boosted research productivity in West-Berlin. In contrast, political suppression, financial scarcity, and restricted international ties hindered scientific development in East-Berlin.
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