Mapping the literature of occupational therapy: an update.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study updated Reed's 1999 "Mapping the Literature of Occupational Therapy." An analysis of citation patterns and indexing coverage was undertaken to identify the core literature of occupational therapy and to determine access to that literature.

Methods

Citations from three source journals for the years 2006 through 2008 were studied following the common methodology of the "Mapping the Literature of Allied Health Project." Bradford's Law of Scattering was applied to analyze the productivity of cited journals. A comparative analysis of indexing was conducted across three bibliographic databases.

Results

A total of 364 articles cited 10,425 references. Journals were the most frequently cited format, accounting for 65.3% of the references, an increase of

SUBMITTER: Potter J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2901014 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature