Mapping selected general literature of international nursing.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study, part of a wider project to map the literature of nursing, identifies core journals cited in non-US nursing journals and determines the extent of their coverage by indexing services.

Methods

Four general English-language journals were analyzed for format types and publication dates. Core titles were identified and nine bibliographic databases were scanned for indexing coverage.

Results

Findings show that 57.5% (13,391/23,271) of the cited references from the 4 core journals were to journal articles, 27.8% (6,471/23,271) to books, 9.5% (2,208/23,271) to government documents, 4.9% (1,131/23,271) to miscellaneous sources, and less than 1% (70/23,271) to Internet resources. Eleven journals produced one-third of the citations; the next third included

SUBMITTER: Shams ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1773024 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature