Friedman Yelena
Staten Island University Hospital 475 Seaview Avenue Staten Island, New York 10305, USA.
J Med Libr Assoc. 2006 Apr;94(2 Suppl):E49-55.
The purpose of this study was to identify core journals in home health nursing and to determine how well these journals were covered by indexing and abstracting services. The study was part of the project for mapping the nursing literature of the Medical Library Association's Nursing and Allied Health Resource Section.
A citation analysis of two core journals was done to determine distribution of references by format types and age of citations and dispersion of the literature, according to Bradford's Law of Scattering. The analysis of indexing coverage for Zone 1 and 2 was also provided.
The study showed that 64.2% of citations came from journals, versus 22.9% from books and 12.9% from other publications. PubMed/ MEDLINE rated highest in average indexing coverage of Zone 1 and 2 journals, followed by CINAHL. PsycINFO, SocioAbstracts, and EBSCO Health Business FullTEXT showed practically no coverage for the home health nursing literature.
As expected, journal articles were found to be the primary source for referencing and books, the secondary source. In regard to bibliographic control, no databases provided full coverage of the journals in the field of home health nursing. PubMed/MEDLINE and CINAHL gave better results in combination, because CINAHL tended to cover more nursing journals, while PubMed/MEDLINE did better with medical titles.
本研究旨在确定家庭健康护理领域的核心期刊,并评估这些期刊被索引和摘要服务收录的情况。该研究是医学图书馆协会护理与相关健康资源部门护理文献地图绘制项目的一部分。
根据布拉德福德散射定律,对两份核心期刊进行了引文分析,以确定参考文献按格式类型和引文年份的分布情况以及文献的分散程度。同时还提供了对第1区和第2区索引覆盖情况的分析。
研究表明,64.2%的引文来自期刊,22.9%来自书籍,12.9%来自其他出版物。在第1区和第2区期刊的平均索引覆盖方面,PubMed/MEDLINE排名最高,其次是CINAHL。PsycINFO、SocioAbstracts和EBSCO Health Business FullTEXT对家庭健康护理文献几乎没有覆盖。
正如预期的那样,期刊文章是参考文献的主要来源,书籍是次要来源。在文献编目控制方面,没有数据库能全面覆盖家庭健康护理领域的期刊。PubMed/MEDLINE和CINAHL结合使用效果更好,因为CINAHL倾向于覆盖更多护理期刊,而PubMed/MEDLINE在医学期刊方面表现更佳。