Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Crisis. 2012;33(5):301-5. doi: 10.1027/0227-5910/a000146.
Three English-language journals deal explicitly with suicide phenomena. To the best of our knowledge, no previous study has analyzed the subject content of these three journals.
To review the abstracts of the three suicide-related journals in order to clarify the subjects of the papers.
We examined all abstracts of every paper published in Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, Archives of Suicide Research, and Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior for the 5 years between 2006 and 2010, and categorized each paper by subject.
We found that the journals were similar with respect to subject allocation. Most papers dealt with epidemiological issues (32.7-40.1% of abstracts); prevention (5.8%-15.3%) and research (8.3%-10.6%) were next best represented subjects. Clinical papers comprised from 2.8% to 8.2% of the studies published.
English-language suicide journals publish a preponderance of epidemiological studies. Clinical studies are relatively underrepresented.
有三本英文期刊专门探讨自杀现象。据我们所知,之前尚无研究分析过这三本期刊的主题内容。
对与自杀相关的三本期刊的摘要进行回顾,以明确论文的主题。
我们对 2006 年至 2010 年这五年间《危机:危机干预与自杀预防杂志》《自杀研究档案》和《自杀与生命威胁行为》这三本期刊上发表的每一篇论文的摘要进行了检查,并根据主题对每篇论文进行了分类。
我们发现这三本期刊在主题分配上具有相似性。大多数论文涉及流行病学问题(占摘要的 32.7%至 40.1%);其次是预防(5.8%至 15.3%)和研究(8.3%至 10.6%)。发表的研究中,临床论文占 2.8%至 8.2%。
英文自杀期刊发表的研究主要是流行病学研究,临床研究相对较少。