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ArticleBMJ open2017

National citation patterns of

Gonzalo Casino, Roser Rius, Erik Cobo

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Article in BMJ open, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Gonzalo CasinoDepartment of Communication, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1872-4130
Roser RiusDepartment of Statistics and Operations Research, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain.
Erik CoboDepartment of Statistics and Operations Research, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3534-5602

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesTo analyse the total number of newspaper articles citing the four leading general medical journals and to describe national citation patterns.

designQuantitative content analysis. SETTING/SAMPLE: Full text of 22 general newspapers in 14 countries over the period 2008-2015, collected from LexisNexis. The 14 countries have been categorised into four regions: the USA, the UK, Western World (European countries other than the UK, and Australia, New Zealand and Canada) and Rest of the World (other countries).

main outcome measurePress citations of four medical journals (two American:

resultsBritish and American newspapers cited some of the four analysed medical journals about three times a week in 2008-2015 (weekly mean 3.2 and 2.7 citations, respectively); the newspapers from other Western countries did so about once a week (weekly mean 1.1), and those from the Rest of the World cited them about once a month (monthly mean 1.1). The New York Times cited above all other newspapers (weekly mean 4.7). The analysis showed the existence of three national citation patterns in the daily press: American newspapers cited mostly American journals (70.0% of citations), British newspapers cited mostly British journals (86.5%) and the rest of the analysed press cited more British journals than American ones.

conclusionBritish and American newspapers are the ones that cite the four analysed medical journals more often, showing a domestic preference for their respective national journals; non-British and non-American newspapers show a common international citation pattern.

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BibliometricsMedical WritingBiomedical ResearchHumansInternationalityMultivariate AnalysisNewspapers as TopicPeriodicals as Topicmedical journalismpublic health

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PMID29133334
PMCPMC5695501

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