Assessing the impact of Canadian primary care research and researchers: Citation analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe the citation impact and characteristics of Canadian primary care researchers and research publications.

Design

Citation analysis.

Setting

Canada.

Participants

A total of 266 established Canadian primary care researchers.

Main outcome measures

The 50 most cited primary care researchers in Canada were identified by analyzing data from the Scopus database. Various parameters, including the number of publications and citations, research themes, Scopus h index, content analysis, journal impact factors, and field-weighted citation impact for their publications, were assessed. Information about the characteristics of these researchers was collected using the Google search engine.

Results

On average, the 50 most cited primary

SUBMITTER: Aggarwal M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11280635 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature