title: The first five years of Annals of Clinical Research. Its international use with special reference to citation analysis.
abstract: The use of Annals of Clinical Research internationally was studied by citation analysis, its presence in the information retrieval systems and library collections and also by its distribution. According to the journal citation search from ASCA the 308 articles in Annals of Clinical Research published during 1969-73 were cited 297 times between October 1973 and October 1974. The impact factor, ie. the number of citations divided by the number of articles published during 1971-72 was 1,163. Annals of Clinical Research had been mostly cited in the United states, Great Britain, France, Sweden and West-Germany. Occasional citations came from all over the world. It is well included in the biomedical information retrieval systems. On basis of some union catalogues Annals of Clinical Research is in collections of big libraries covering their field widely. 878 subscriptions are distributed to all parts of the world.
mesh_terms: D001634:Bibliographies as Topic; D005387:Finland; D010506:Periodicals as Topic