Brown Ted, Gutman Sharon A, Ho Yuh-Shan, Fong Kenneth N K
a Department of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences , Monash University - Peninsula Campus , Frankston , VIC , Australia.
b Programs in Occupational Therapy , Columbia University Medical Center , New York , NY , USA.
Scand J Occup Ther. 2018 Jan;25(1):1-14. doi: 10.1080/11038128.2017.1329344. Epub 2017 May 16.
Bibliometrics involves the statistical analysis of the publications in a specific discipline or subject area. A bibliometric analysis of the occupational therapy refereed literature is needed.
A bibliometric analysis was completed of the occupational therapy literature from 1991-2014, indexed in the Science Citation Index-Expanded or the Social Sciences Citation Index.
Publications were searched by title, abstract, keywords, and KeyWords Plus. Total number of article citations, citations per journal, and contributions per country, individual authors, and institution were calculated.
5,315 occupational therapy articles were published in 821 journals. It appears that there is a citation window of an approximate 10-year period between the time of publication and the peak number of citations an article receives. The top three most highly cited articles were published in Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, JAMA, and Lancet. AJOT, BJOT and AOTJ published the largest number of occupational therapy articles with the United States, Australia, and Canada producing the highest number of publications. McMaster University, the University of Queensland, and the University of Toronto were the institutions that published the largest number of occupational therapy journal articles.
The occupational therapy literature is growing and the frequency of article citation is increasing.
文献计量学涉及对特定学科或主题领域的出版物进行统计分析。需要对职业治疗领域的同行评审文献进行文献计量分析。
完成了对1991年至2014年被《科学引文索引（扩展版）》或《社会科学引文索引》收录的职业治疗文献的文献计量分析。
通过标题、摘要、关键词和关键词加字段检索出版物。计算文章的总被引次数、每种期刊的被引次数以及每个国家、个人作者和机构的贡献。
821种期刊发表了5315篇职业治疗文章。似乎文章发表时间与获得的最高被引次数之间存在大约10年的引文窗口。被引次数最多的前三篇文章发表在《发育医学与儿童神经病学》《美国医学会杂志》和《柳叶刀》上。《美国职业治疗杂志》《英国职业治疗杂志》和《澳大利亚职业治疗杂志》发表的职业治疗文章数量最多，美国、澳大利亚和加拿大的出版物数量最高。麦克马斯特大学、昆士兰大学和多伦多大学是发表职业治疗期刊文章数量最多的机构。
职业治疗文献在不断增长，文章被引频率也在增加。
