[Dutch authors in international medical journals are also authors of publications in the Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde (Dutch Journal of Medicine)].

To determine whether Dutch medical scientists who frequently publish in international journals with high impact factors also publish in Dutch in the Nederlands Tijdschrit voor Geneeskunde (NTvG).Bibliometric study.By means of a search in Medline, the Dutch authors were selected who had published the largest number of articles in 20 medical journals with high impact factors from 5 different specialties: general medicine, surgery, dermatology,...