An inventory of the alcohol research literature

This paper provides an inventory of the literature on alcohol research. The aim is to provide the readers of this literature with data on the quantity and types of papers published. For this purpose, over 4000 scientific papers on biomedical and social aspects of alcohol consumption, which had been collected in our Alcohol Documentation Centre over the past 2 years, were surveyed. They were classified according to three criteria: (1) the subject under investigation, (2) the type of study, and (3) whether the study concerned normal consumption, alcohol misuse or both. Furthermore, information is given on sources of alcohol research literature, authorship, and countries of origin.