A study of journals needed to support the Project 2000 nursing course with an evaluation of citation counting as a method of journal selection

Abstract

The nursing journals titles needed to support Project 2000 were considered. In order to reflect the structure of nursing literature as a whole, a citation count from the Citation index for 1990 was undertaken. In order to rank journals in each of the 4 branches of Project 2000, an analysis of the citations in a leading journal representing each branch was undertaken. To reflect student usage a survey of photocopier use and citation in student bibliographies was undertaken. In order to reflect what titles the library ought to have, a questionnaire survey of tutors was undertaken. The ranking of titles in the Citation index was tested for correlation with the ranks obtained from student use and tutor recommendation and the correlation between student use and tutor recommendation was drawn. Finally, a scheme for combining the rankings of journal titles obtained by the methods above was devised in order to produce an overall ranking of the principal titles.

Citation

Moorbath, P. (1993), "A study of journals needed to support the Project 2000 nursing course with an evaluation of citation counting as a method of journal selection", Aslib Proceedings, Vol. 45 No. 2, pp. 39-46. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb051304