Mapping the core journals of the physical therapy literature

Fell, Dennis W.; Burnham, Judy F.; Buchanan, Melanie J; Horchen, Heidi A; Scherr, J.

doi:10.3163/1536-5050.99.3.007

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“…This same theory has been validated in many different areas of basic science and clinical research (9,10). The fact that these articles made up the majority of highly cited studies is highly suggestive of the fact that advances in imaging are highly dependent on advances in fields such as computer science and physics.…”

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The 100 Most-cited Articles in the Imaging Literature

Brinjikji

Klunder

Kallmes³

2013

Radiology

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The 100 Most-cited Articles in the Imaging Literature

Brinjikji

Klunder

Kallmes³

2013

Radiology

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“…Core journals have been identified in many fields by using Bradford's law of scattering, including environmental and occupational health, 23 nursing, 24 physical and rehabilitation medicine, 7 physical therapy, 6 physics, 26 and science. 4 In 2013, Madhugiri et al 19 were the first to apply Bradford's law of scattering to identify core journals within the field of neurosurgery.…”

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Bradford’s law: identification of the core journals for neurosurgery and its subspecialties

Venable¹,

Shepherd²,

Loftis³

et al. 2016

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obJective Bradford's law describes the scatter of citations for a given subject or field. It can be used to identify the most highly cited journals for a field or subject. The objective of this study was to use currently accepted formulations of Bradford's law to identify core journals of neurosurgery and neurosurgical subspecialties. methods All original research publications from 2009 to 2013 were analyzed for the top 25 North American academic neurosurgeons from each subspecialty. The top 25 were chosen from a ranked career h-index list identified from previous studies. Egghe's formulation and the verbal formulation of Bradford's law were applied to create specific citation density zones and identify the core journals for each subspecialty. The databases were then combined to identify the core journals for all of academic neurosurgery. results Using Bradford's verbal law with 4 zone models, the authors were able to identify the core journals of neurosurgery and its subspecialties. The journals found in the most highly cited first zone are presented here as the core journals. For neurosurgery as a whole, the core included the following journals: Journal of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery, Spine, Stroke, Neurology, American Journal of Neuroradiology, International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics, and New England Journal of Medicine. The core journals for each subspecialty are presented in the manuscript. coNclusioNs Bradford's law can be used to identify the core journals of neurosurgery and its subspecialties. The core journals vary for each neurosurgical subspecialty, but Journal of Neurosurgery and Neurosurgery are among the core journals for each neurosurgical subspecialty.

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“…Bradford's law of scattering has been used to describe core journals for nursing [13], physical and rehabilitation medicine [14], physical therapy [15], physics [7], occupational therapy [16], and science [9]. In 2013, Madhugiri et al [11] described the first application of Bradford's law of distribution to identify core journals within neurosurgery.…”

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confidence: 99%