Nadir R. Farid · Evanthia Diamanti-Kandarakis
Editors

2009

Consulting citation trends in PubMed for key words or phrases is instructive as to the interest of the scientific community in the subject and by inference its currency and likely importance. In the 5 years between 1985 and 1989 there were 91 papers on PCOS. The rate escalated rapidly in the next half-decades to 727, 1642, and 4355, 2005–July 2008. Insulin resistance was more topical and references reference to the term increased rapidly: 1995–1999, 8517, 2000–2004, 21,828 and in 2005–July 2008 only rose to 48,914.