title: A citation analysis of medical informatics journals.
abstract: Citation analysis is an unbiased, quantitative method for evaluating the usefulness of a particular scientific article, or the journal containing that article, based on the number of citations it receives. We performed a citation analysis of the medical informatics journals and compared them to several general medical and science journals. There was no clear-cut "best" medical informatics journal based on these rankings. Comparison with the general medical and science journals showed that our field is at least an order of magnitude smaller than these fields.
authors.affiliation: The Informatics Center, Eskind Biomedical Library, Vanderbilt University Nashville, Tennessee USA.
authors.forename: D F
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: Sittig
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kaalaas-Sittig
mesh_terms: D015706:Bibliometrics; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000145:classification / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014481:United States