Tackling the growth of the obesity literature: obesity evidence spreads across many journals.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study identified the journals with the highest yield of clinical obesity research articles and surveyed the scatter of such studies across journals. The study exemplifies an approach to establish a journal collection that is likely to contain most new knowledge about a field.

Design and methods

All original studies that were cited in 40 systematic reviews about obesity topics ('included studies') were compiled and journal titles in which they were published were extracted. The journals were ranked by the number of included studies. The highest-yielding journals for clinical obesity and the scatter across journal titles were determined. A subset of these journals was created in MEDLINE (PubMed) to test search recall and precision for high-quality studies of obe

SUBMITTER: Baier LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2888815 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature