J Med Libr Assoc. 2021 Jul 1;109(3):464-471. doi: 10.5195/jmla.2021.1121.
This study aims to identify the core journals cited in the health care management literature and to determine their coverage in the foremost bibliographic databases used by the discipline.
Using the methodology outlined by the Medical Library Association's Nursing and Allied Health Resource Section (NAHRS) protocol for "Mapping the Literature of Nursing and Allied Health Professions," this study updates an earlier study published in 2007. Cited references from articles published in a three-year range (2016-2018) were collected from five health care management journals. Using Bradford's Law of Scattering, cited journal titles were tabulated and ranked according to the number of times cited. Eleven databases were used to determine coverage of the most highly cited journal titles for all source journals, as well as for a subset of practitioner-oriented journals.
The most highly cited sources were journals, followed by government documents, Internet resources, books, and miscellaneous resources. The databases with the most complete coverage of Zone 1 and 2 were Scopus, Web of Science Core Collection, and PubMed, while the worst performing databases were Health Business Elite, ABI/Inform, and Business Source Complete.
The literature of health care management has expanded rapidly in the last decade, with cumulative citations increasing by 76.6% and the number of cited journal titles increasing by nearly 70% since the original study. Coverage of the core journals in popular databases remains high, although specialized health care management and business databases did not perform as well as general or biomedical databases.
本研究旨在确定医疗保健管理文献中被引用的核心期刊，并确定它们在该学科主要书目数据库中的覆盖范围。
本研究使用医学图书馆协会护理和相关健康资源科（NAHRS）制定的“护理和相关健康专业文献图谱”方法，对 2007 年发表的早期研究进行了更新。从五本医疗保健管理期刊中收集了发表在三年范围内（2016-2018 年）的文章的参考文献。根据布拉德福的分散定律，对引用期刊的标题进行了制表和排序，按照被引用的次数进行排名。使用 11 个数据库来确定最常被引期刊标题在所有来源期刊中的覆盖范围，以及在一组面向从业者的期刊中的覆盖范围。
最常被引的来源是期刊，其次是政府文件、互联网资源、书籍和杂项资源。在覆盖 1 区和 2 区的数据库中，表现最好的是 Scopus、Web of Science 核心合集和 PubMed，而表现最差的数据库是 Health Business Elite、ABI/Inform 和 Business Source Complete。
在过去十年中，医疗保健管理文献迅速扩展，累积引文增加了 76.6%，被引期刊标题的数量增加了近 70%，自最初的研究以来。核心期刊在流行数据库中的覆盖范围仍然很高，尽管专门的医疗保健管理和商业数据库的表现不如一般或生物医学数据库。
