Murphy Sharon C
Health Sciences Library, State University of New York at Buffalo, 3435 Main Street, Buffalo, New York 14214, USA.
J Med Libr Assoc. 2006 Apr;94(2 Suppl):E143-51.
No bibliometric studies of the literature of the field of transcultural nursing have been published. This paper describes a citation analysis as part of the project undertaken by the Nursing and Allied Health Resources Section of the Medical Library Association to map the literature of nursing.
The purpose of this study was to identify the core literature and determine which databases provided the most complete access to the transcultural nursing literature.
Cited references from essential source journals were analyzed for a three-year period. Eight major databases were compared for indexing coverage of the identified core list of journals.
This study identifies 138 core journals. Transcultural nursing relies on journal literature from associated health sciences fields in addition to nursing. Books provide an important format. Nearly all cited references were from the previous 18 years. In comparing indexing coverage among 8 major databases, 3 databases rose to the top.
No single database can claim comprehensive indexing coverage for this broad field. It is essential to search multiple databases. Based on this study, PubMed/MEDLINE, Social Sciences Citation Index, and CINAHL provide the best coverage. Collections supporting transcultural nursing require robust access to literature beyond nursing publications.
尚未发表关于跨文化护理领域文献的文献计量学研究。本文描述了一项引文分析，作为医学图书馆协会护理与联合健康资源部门开展的绘制护理文献项目的一部分。
本研究的目的是确定核心文献，并确定哪些数据库能最全面地获取跨文化护理文献。
对三年期间重要来源期刊的参考文献进行分析。比较了八个主要数据库对已确定的核心期刊列表的索引覆盖情况。
本研究确定了138种核心期刊。跨文化护理除了依赖护理领域的期刊文献外，还依赖相关健康科学领域的文献。书籍是一种重要的形式。几乎所有被引用的参考文献都来自过去18年。在比较八个主要数据库的索引覆盖情况时，有三个数据库名列前茅。
没有一个数据库能宣称对这个广泛的领域有全面的索引覆盖。搜索多个数据库至关重要。基于本研究，PubMed/MEDLINE、社会科学引文索引和护理学与健康领域数据库（CINAHL）提供了最佳覆盖。支持跨文化护理的馆藏需要能充分获取护理出版物以外的文献。
