ArticleJournal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA2011
Mapping the core journals of the physical therapy literature.
Article in Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 9 papers.
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Who cites it
9 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Mapping the literature of health care management: an update.Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA · 2021Article
- Bibliometric analysis of core journals which publish articles of physical therapy on aging.Physical therapy research · 2020Review
- Are they publishing? A descriptive cross-sectional profile and bibliometric analysis of the journal publication productivity of Italian physiotherapists.Archives of physiotherapy · 2018Article
- A bibliometric analysis of statistical terms used in American Physical Therapy Association journals (2011-2012): evidence for educating physical therapists.BMC medical education · 2016Article
- Factors associated with citation rate of randomised controlled trials in physiotherapy.Archives of physiotherapy · 2015Article
- An assessment of the efficacy of searching in biomedical databases beyond MEDLINE in identifying studies for a systematic review on ward closures as an infection control intervention to control outbreaks.Systematic reviews · 2014Article
- An application of Bradford's law: identification of the core journals of pediatric neurosurgery and a regional comparison of citation density.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2014Article
- Types and quality of physical therapy research publications: has there been a change in the past decade?Physiotherapy Canada. Physiotherapie Canada · 2014Article
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issuedCorrections2012
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
objectivesThe purpose of this study was to identify (1) core journals in the literature of physical therapy, (2) currency of references cited in that literature, and (3) online databases providing the highest coverage rate of core journals.
methodData for each cited reference in each article of four source journals for three years were recorded, including type of literature, year of publication, and journal title. The journal titles were ranked in descending order according to the frequency of citations and divided into three zones using Bradford's Law of Scattering. Four databases were analyzed for coverage rates of articles published in the Zone 1 and Zone 2 journals in 2007.
resultsJournal articles were the most frequently cited type of literature, with sixteen journals supplying one-third of the cited journal references. Physical Therapy was the most commonly cited title. There were more cited articles published from 2000 to 2007 than in any previous full decade. Of the databases analyzed, CINAHL provided the highest coverage rate for Zone 1 2007 publications.
conclusionsResults were similar to a previous study, except for changes in the order of Zone 1 journals. Results can help physical therapists and librarians determine important journals in this discipline.
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