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Comparing Bibliometric Analysis Using PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science Databases
Published on: October 24, 2019
Comparison of journals of suicidology: a bibliometric study from 2006–2010
Mark J Goldblatt1, Mark Schechter, John T Maltsberger
1Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, USA. mark_goldblatt@hms.harvard.edu
Background:
Three English-language journals deal explicitly with suicide phenomena. To the best of our knowledge, no previous study has analyzed the subject content of these three journals.
Aims:
To review the abstracts of the three suicide-related journals in order to clarify the subjects of the papers.
Methods:
We examined all abstracts of every paper published in Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, Archives of Suicide Research, and Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior for the 5 years between 2006 and 2010, and categorized each paper by subject.
Results:
We found that the journals were similar with respect to subject allocation. Most papers dealt with epidemiological issues (32.7-40.1% of abstracts); prevention (5.8%-15.3%) and research (8.3%-10.6%) were next best represented subjects. Clinical papers comprised from 2.8% to 8.2% of the studies published.
Conclusions:
English-language suicide journals publish a preponderance of epidemiological studies. Clinical studies are relatively underrepresented.
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