Book citations: influence of epidemiologic thought in the academic community
Whilst their 'death' has often been certified, books remain highly important to most professions and academic disciplines. Analyses of citations received by epidemiologic texts may complement other views on epidemiology. The objective was to assess the number of citations received by some...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:b8ca38b92c9c4601a246a6af92391634 2023-05-15T16:29:37+02:00 Book citations: influence of epidemiologic thought in the academic community Miquel Porta Esteve Fernandez Elisa Puigdomènech https://doaj.org/article/b8ca38b92c9c4601a246a6af92391634 EN ES PT eng spa por Universidade de São Paulo http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-89102006000400008&lng=en&tlng=en https://doaj.org/toc/0034-8910 https://doaj.org/toc/1518-8787 0034-8910 1518-8787 https://doaj.org/article/b8ca38b92c9c4601a246a6af92391634 Revista de Saúde Pública, Vol 40, Iss spe, Pp 50-56 textbooks reference books epidemiology bibliometrics Public aspects of medicine RA1-1270 article ftdoajarticles 2022-12-31T05:08:54Z Whilst their 'death' has often been certified, books remain highly important to most professions and academic disciplines. Analyses of citations received by epidemiologic texts may complement other views on epidemiology. The objective was to assess the number of citations received by some books of epidemiology and public health, as a first step towards studying the influence of epidemiological thought and thinking in academia. For this purpose, Institute for Scientific Information/ Thomson Scientific - Web of Science/ Web of Knowledgedatabase was consulted, in May 2006. The book by Rothman & Greenland appeared to have received the highest number of citations overall (over 8,000) and per year. The books by Kleinbaum et al, and by Breslow & Day received around 5,000 citations. In terms of citations per year the book by Sackett et al ranks 3rd, and the one by Rose, 4th of those included in this preliminary study. Other books which were influential in the classrooms collected comparatively less citations. Results offer a rich picture of the academic influences and trends of epidemiologic methods and reasoning on public health, clinical medicine and the other health, life and social sciences. They may contribute to assess epidemiologists' efforts to demarcate epidemiology and to assert epistemic authority, and to analyze some historical influences of economic, social and political forces on epidemiological research. Article in Journal/Newspaper Greenland Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Greenland |
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Whilst their 'death' has often been certified, books remain highly important to most professions and academic disciplines. Analyses of citations received by epidemiologic texts may complement other views on epidemiology. The objective was to assess the number of citations received by some books of epidemiology and public health, as a first step towards studying the influence of epidemiological thought and thinking in academia. For this purpose, Institute for Scientific Information/ Thomson Scientific - Web of Science/ Web of Knowledgedatabase was consulted, in May 2006. The book by Rothman & Greenland appeared to have received the highest number of citations overall (over 8,000) and per year. The books by Kleinbaum et al, and by Breslow & Day received around 5,000 citations. In terms of citations per year the book by Sackett et al ranks 3rd, and the one by Rose, 4th of those included in this preliminary study. Other books which were influential in the classrooms collected comparatively less citations. Results offer a rich picture of the academic influences and trends of epidemiologic methods and reasoning on public health, clinical medicine and the other health, life and social sciences. They may contribute to assess epidemiologists' efforts to demarcate epidemiology and to assert epistemic authority, and to analyze some historical influences of economic, social and political forces on epidemiological research. |
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