Merigó José M, Núñez Alicia
Department of Management Control and Information Systems, School of Economics and Business, Universidad de Chile, Diagonal Paraguay 257, Office 2004, Santiago, Chile.
Global Health. 2016 Aug 22;12(1):46. doi: 10.1186/s12992-016-0186-4.
There is a wide range of intellectual work written about health research, which has been shaped by the evolution of diseases. This study aims to identify the leading journals over the last 25 years (1990-2014) according to a wide range of bibliometric indicators.
The study develops a bibliometric overview of all the journals that are currently indexed in Web of Science (WoS) database in any of the four categories connected to health research. The work classifies health research in nine subfields: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Health Management and Economics, Health Promotion and Health Behavior, Epidemiology, Health Policy and Services, Medicine, Health Informatics, Engineering and Technology, and Primary Care.
The results indicate a wide dispersion between categories being the American Journal of Epidemiology, Environmental Health Perspectives, American Journal of Public Health, and Social Science & Medicine, the journals that have received the highest number of citations over the last 25 years. According to other indicators such as the h-index and the citations per paper, some other journals such as the Annual Review of Public Health and Medical Care, obtain better results which show the wide diversity and profiles of outlets available in the scientific community. The results are grouped and studied according to the nine subfields in order to identify the leading journals in each specific sub discipline of health.
The work identifies the leading journals in health research through a bibliometric approach. The analysis shows a deep overview of the results of health journals. It is worth noting that many journals have entered the WoS database during the last years, in many cases to fill some specific niche that has emerged in the literature, although the most popular ones have been in the database for a long time.
关于健康研究的学术著作众多，其发展受到疾病演变的影响。本研究旨在依据一系列文献计量指标，确定过去25年（1990 - 2014年）的顶尖期刊。
该研究对所有当前被科学引文索引（WoS）数据库收录的、与健康研究相关的四个类别中的期刊进行文献计量综述。研究将健康研究分为九个子领域：公共卫生、环境与职业健康、健康管理与经济学、健康促进与健康行为、流行病学、健康政策与服务、医学、健康信息学、工程与技术以及初级保健。
结果表明各类别之间差异较大，《美国流行病学杂志》《环境卫生展望》《美国公共卫生杂志》以及《社会科学与医学》是过去25年中被引用次数最多的期刊。根据其他指标，如h指数和每篇论文的引用次数，其他一些期刊，如《公共卫生年评》和《医疗保健》，取得了更好的成绩，这表明科学界的期刊具有广泛的多样性和特点。研究结果按九个子领域进行分组和研究，以确定健康领域各具体子学科的顶尖期刊。
本研究通过文献计量方法确定了健康研究领域的顶尖期刊。分析深入概述了健康领域期刊的研究成果。值得注意的是，尽管许多最受欢迎的期刊已在数据库中存在很长时间，但近年来仍有许多期刊进入WoS数据库，在许多情况下是为了填补文献中出现的一些特定空白领域。
