Where is mosquito research published?
To identify the core journals that publish articles on mosquito research, the Agricola database (covering 1985-89 citations) was analyzed. This source contained 3,007 citations to mosquito research, and the citations were found in 404 different serials. Whereas 10 serials (2.5% of total serials) in Agricola produced 50% of the citations, almost one-half of the serials in this source contained only one citation to mosquito research. Fifteen journals (the core journals) contained greater than 1% of total citations. The number of citations found among 126 different databases and abstracting services that were examined varied: 39 had no citations to mosquitoes, but 13 (including life-sciences, medical and even popular-literature databases) had greater than 100 citations. The choice of core journals will be an increasingly important decision by biological libraries as costs for journal subscriptions rise.
Department of Entomological Sciences, University of California, Berkeley 94720.
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