The Medical Journals of the United States

Billings, John S.

doi:10.1056/nejm187901021000101

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“…The oldest historical root from this period is Billings (1879) book in which he analysed the bibliometric characteristics of medical journals published in the United States. Following historical roots are associated with the foundations of statistical bibliography, namely: Statistical analysis (publication counts and graphical presentation of literature production) of the literature on comparative anatomy regarding activities performed by comparative anatomists, performance of European countries, animals targeted and groups of animals examined (Cole & Eales, 1917).…”

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Application of bibliometrics in medicine: a historical bibliometrics analysis

Kokol

Vošner²,

Završnik³

2020

Health Info Libraries J

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Background The application of bibliometrics in medicine enables one to analyse vast amounts of publications and their production patterns on macroscopic and microscopic levels. Objectives The aim of the study was to analyse the historical perspective of research literature production regarding application of bibliometrics in medicine. Methods Publications related to application of bibliometrics in medicine from 1970 to 2018 were harvested from the Scopus bibliographic database. Reference Publication Year Spectroscopy was triangulated with the VOSViewer to identify historical roots and evolution of topics and clinical areas. Results The search resulted in 6557 publications. The literature production trend was positive. Historical roots analysis identified 33 historical roots and 16 clinical areas where bibliometrics was applied. Discussion The increase in productivity in application of bibliometrics in medicine might be attributed to increased use of quantitative metrics in research evaluation, publish or perish phenomenon and the increased use of evidence‐based medicine. Conclusion The trend of the literature production was positive. Medicine was in the forefront of knowledge development in bibliometrics. reference publication year spectroscopy proved to be an accurate method which was able to identify most of the historical roots.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Application of bibliometrics in medicine: a historical bibliometrics analysis

Kokol

Vošner²,

Završnik³

2020

Health Info Libraries J

261

134

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“…These include New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery (1812–26), American Medical Recorder (1818–29), Philadelphia Journal of the Medical and Physical Sciences (1820–27), Medico-Chirurgical Review (1820–47), Microscope (1821–27), New York Medical and Physical Journal (1822–30), Boston Medical Intelligencer (1823–28), American Medical Review and Journal (1824–26), Carolina Journal of Medicine (1825–26) and American Botanical Register (1825–30). 35,36 At its demise in 1831 nine titles were in publication: Medico-Chirurgical Review (1820–47), American Journal of the Medical Sciences (1827-), Western Journal of Medical and Physical Sciences (1827–38), Transylvania Journal of Medicine (1828–39), Boston Medical and Surgical Journal (1828–1928), American Journal of Pharmacy (1829–1936), Maryland Medical Recorder (1829–32), Journal of Health (1829–33) and New York Medico-Chirurgical Bulletin (1831–32). 37,38…”

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Quest for Professionalism: a biography of the North American Medical and Surgical Journal (1826–31)

Shultz¹

2011

J Med Biogr

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This is the biography of a deceased medical journal, the North American Medical and Surgical Journal, born in 1826 in Philadelphia. It was a publication of the Philadelphia Chapter of the Kappa Lambda Society. In the prospectus of the North American Medical and Surgical Journal the promoters observed that a well-conducted journal would achieve the object of elevating the medical profession to its legitimate rank which up to that time had been the recipient of low public opinion. The Journal hoped to inculcate ‘a higher standard of excellence not merely in the professional or ministrative but also in the ethical relations and duties of physicians’. After several successful and productive years it passed into history in October 1831, the victim of financial difficulty.

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“…The tradition of the independent medical journal as a medium for rather scurrilous medical polemics persisted with the earlier years of the Lancet , which was founded by Thomas Wakley in 1823 and is the prototype of the present‐day English language medical weekly. As late as 1879 there were still vestiges of a ruder age, and John Shaw Billings (1879), speaking of the medical journals of the United States of America, said that the raison d'être of the minor ones was commonly: ‘the desire to have a place in which the editor can speak his mind and attack his enemies without restraint.’…”

Section: The Growth Of Modern Medical Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

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Howard‐Jones¹

2009

Medical Education

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The Medical Journals of the United States

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Application of bibliometrics in medicine: a historical bibliometrics analysis

Application of bibliometrics in medicine: a historical bibliometrics analysis

Quest for Professionalism: a biography of the North American Medical and Surgical Journal (1826–31)

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