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ArticleJournal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA2007

Mapping the literature of athletic training.

Frances A Delwiche, Ellen F Hall

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Article in Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Specialist Bibliographic Databases.Journal of Korean medical science · 2016
    Review
  3. Mapping the literature of occupational therapy: an update.Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA · 2010
    Article
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Frances A DelwicheDana Medical Library, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA. Frances.Delwiche@uvm.edu
Ellen F Hall

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeThis paper identifies the core literature of athletic training and determines which major databases provide the most thorough intellectual access to this literature.

methodsThis study collected all cited references from 2002 to 2004 of three journals widely read by those in the athletic training field. Bradford's Law of Scattering was applied to the resulting list to determine the core journal titles in the discipline. Three major databases were reviewed for extent of their coverage of these core journals.

resultsOf the total 8,678 citations, one-third referenced a compact group of 6 journals; another third of the citations referenced an additional 40 titles. The remaining 2,837 citations were scattered across 1,034 additional journal titles.

conclusionsThe number and scatter of citations over a three-year period identified forty-six key journals in athletic training. The study results can inform athletic trainers of the core literature in their field, encourage database producers (e.g., MEDLINE, SPORTDiscus, CINAHL) to increase coverage of titles that are not indexed or underindexed, and guide purchasing decisions for libraries serving athletic training programs.

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Allied Health OccupationsBibliometricsPeriodicals as TopicPhysical Education and TrainingAbstracting and IndexingDatabases, BibliographicHumansPublicationsSports

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PMID17443253
PMCPMC1852615

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