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J Med Libr Assoc. 2010 Oct;98(4):293-9. doi: 10.3163/1536-5050.98.4.005.
The study updates Schloman's 1997 study, "Mapping the Literature of Health Education." The authors identify an updated list of core health education journals and determine the coverage of these journals by electronic indexes.
Citations from four source journals for the years 2006 to 2008 were analyzed using the established methodology of the "Mapping the Literature of Allied Health Project." The cited journals were divided into three zones of productivity by using Bradford's Law of Scattering.
There were 19,907 citations in 602 source articles. Journal articles were the most commonly cited format type. Of the 1,896 journal titles cited, 20 (1.1%) made up the core journals. Together, the fields of medicine, health education, and psychology accounted for 85.0% of the journals in the core. Self-citation was found to be a common practice in the source journals. Scopus had the broadest journal coverage of the indexes examined.
The results of this study provide a new picture of the health education literature: The volume has grown significantly, cites older materials, and relies less on sexual health journals and more on psychology journals.
本研究更新了 Schloman 1997 年的研究“健康教育学文献图谱”。作者确定了一份更新的核心健康教育学期刊列表,并确定了这些期刊在电子索引中的覆盖范围。
使用“辅助健康领域文献图谱项目”的既定方法分析了 2006 年至 2008 年的四个来源期刊的引文。根据布拉德福的分散定律,将被引期刊分为三个生产力区。
在 602 篇来源文章中有 19907 条引文。期刊文章是最常见的被引格式类型。在引用的 1896 种期刊中,有 20 种(1.1%)被列为核心期刊。医学、健康教育和心理学领域共同占核心期刊的 85.0%。在来源期刊中发现了自引是一种常见做法。Scopus 在被检查的索引中具有最广泛的期刊覆盖范围。
本研究的结果提供了健康教育学文献的新图景:该领域的文献量显著增长,引用了更旧的资料,对性健康期刊的依赖减少,对心理学期刊的依赖增加。