Hospital del Mar Institute of Medical Research (IMIM), Barcelona, CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), and School of Medicine, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
PLoS One. 2013 May 7;8(5):e61837. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061837. Print 2013.
There are no analyses of citations to books on epidemiological and statistical methods in the biomedical literature. Such analyses may shed light on how concepts and methods changed while biomedical research evolved. Our aim was to analyze the number and time trends of citations received from biomedical articles by books on epidemiological and statistical methods, and related disciplines.
The data source was the Web of Science. The study books were published between 1957 and 2010. The first year of publication of the citing articles was 1945. We identified 125 books that received at least 25 citations. Books first published in 1980-1989 had the highest total and median number of citations per year. Nine of the 10 most cited texts focused on statistical methods. Hosmer & Lemeshow's Applied logistic regression received the highest number of citations and highest average annual rate. It was followed by books by Fleiss, Armitage, et al., Rothman, et al., and Kalbfleisch and Prentice. Fifth in citations per year was Sackett, et al., Evidence-based medicine. The rise of multivariate methods, clinical epidemiology, or nutritional epidemiology was reflected in the citation trends. Educational textbooks, practice-oriented books, books on epidemiological substantive knowledge, and on theory and health policies were much less cited. None of the 25 top-cited books had the theoretical or sociopolitical scope of works by Cochrane, McKeown, Rose, or Morris.
Books were mainly cited to reference methods. Books first published in the 1980s continue to be most influential. Older books on theory and policies were rooted in societal and general medical concerns, while the most modern books are almost purely on methods.
目前还没有对生物医学文献中流行病学和统计方法书籍引用情况的分析。此类分析可能有助于揭示生物医学研究发展过程中概念和方法的变化情况。我们的目的是分析流行病学和统计方法以及相关学科的书籍从生物医学文章中获得的引用数量和时间趋势。
数据来源是 Web of Science。研究书籍的出版时间介于 1957 年至 2010 年之间。被引文章的最早出版年份是 1945 年。我们确定了至少被引用 25 次的 125 本图书。1980-1989 年首次出版的图书每年的总引用量和中位数最高。被引用最多的 10 种文本中有 9 种集中在统计方法上。Hosmer & Lemeshow 的《应用逻辑回归》获得了最多的引用和最高的平均年引用率。其次是 Fleiss、Armitage 等人、Rothman 等人以及 Kalbfleisch 和 Prentice 的书。每年引用量排名第五的是 Sackett 等人的《循证医学》。多变量方法、临床流行病学或营养流行病学的兴起反映在引用趋势中。教育教材、面向实践的书籍、流行病学实质性知识书籍以及理论和卫生政策书籍的引用量要少得多。在 25 本最具影响力的书籍中，没有一本像 Cochrane、McKeown、Rose 或 Morris 的著作那样具有理论或社会政治范围。
书籍主要是为了引用方法而被引用。20 世纪 80 年代首次出版的书籍仍然最具影响力。关于理论和政策的旧书根植于社会和一般医学关注，而最新的书籍几乎完全是关于方法的。
