Mapping the literature of health care management: an update.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study aims to identify the core journals cited in the health care management literature and to determine their coverage in the foremost bibliographic databases used by the discipline.

Methods

Using the methodology outlined by the Medical Library Association's Nursing and Allied Health Resource Section (NAHRS) protocol for "Mapping the Literature of Nursing and Allied Health Professions," this study updates an earlier study published in 2007. Cited references from articles published in a three-year range (2016-2018) were collected from five health care management journals. Using Bradford's Law of Scattering, cited journal titles were tabulated and ranked according to the number of times cited. Eleven databases were used to determine coverage of the most highly

SUBMITTER: Burtis AT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8485946 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature