Dean E, Davies J
Phys Ther. 1986 Jun;66(6):961-6. doi: 10.1093/ptj/66.6.961.
This article describes a study designed to determine whether a correlation exists between those contributors whom practicing physical therapists consider to be eminent in the profession and those contributors with high citation frequencies in the current physical therapy literature. The study consisted of a citation analysis of a two-year period, 1981 and 1982, of the journals Physical Therapy and Physiotherapy Canada to identify the most frequently cited authors. Forty physical therapists practicing in two large general hospitals in Vancouver, Canada, volunteered to rate a random selection of contributors to the profession using a scale of 0 to 10 according to their apparent influence on the profession. Our study revealed that the scores of the therapists were correlated with the frequencies based on the citation analysis (p less than .05). We further observed that the citation frequency of authors in the Canadian journal was correlated with the citation frequency of authors in the American journal (p less than .05). We conclude that, with the increased emphasis on research in physical therapy, a stronger relationship will develop between subjective and objective measures of the professional impact of contributors on the profession.
本文描述了一项研究，该研究旨在确定在执业物理治疗师认为在该领域杰出的贡献者与当前物理治疗文献中具有高引用频率的贡献者之间是否存在相关性。该研究包括对1981年和1982年这两年的《物理治疗》和《加拿大物理疗法》杂志进行引用分析，以确定被引用频率最高的作者。加拿大温哥华两家大型综合医院的40名执业物理治疗师自愿使用0到10的量表，根据他们对该领域的明显影响力，对该领域的随机选择的贡献者进行评分。我们的研究表明，治疗师的评分与基于引用分析的频率相关（p小于0.05）。我们进一步观察到，加拿大期刊中作者的引用频率与美国期刊中作者的引用频率相关（p小于0.05）。我们得出结论，随着对物理治疗研究的日益重视，贡献者对该领域专业影响的主观和客观衡量标准之间将形成更强的关系。
