PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Frances A. Delwiche
TI  - Insights Gained from Analysis of Citations in Clinical Laboratory Science
AID  - 10.29074/ascls.29.1.21
DP  - 2016 Jan 01
TA  - American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science
PG  - 21--27
VI  - 29
IP  - 1
4099  - http://hwmaint.clsjournal.ascls.org/content/29/1/21.short
4100  - http://hwmaint.clsjournal.ascls.org/content/29/1/21.full
SO  - Clin Lab Sci2016 Jan 01; 29
AB  - This study describes a citation analysis conducted on publications in Clinical Laboratory Science from 2010-2014. References were gathered and sorted according to format and publication date; for references to journal articles, the journal title was also recorded. At 71.0%, the journal article was found to be the most frequently cited format. Over 54% of the references were five years old or less, and over 91% were from the last two decades. A total of 815 unique journal titles were cited. The 22 most frequently cited journals provided approximately one-third of the references, while over 85% of the journals were cited three times or less. The most frequently cited journals were drawn from general medicine, pathology/laboratory medicine, the pre-clinical sciences, and general science. Results of the study can be used by faculty, students, practitioners, and researchers to support scholarship and research, and to advance the long-term goals of the profession.ABBREVIATIONS: ASP - Academic Search Premier, CINAHL - Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, PNAHS - ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source, SCIE - Science Citation Index Expanded