A new era : the evolution of research in Australian nursing and allied health professional journals ; a bibliometric analysis
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2012
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Wiles, Louise Katherine Mary
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Bibliometric measures may be used to describe historical and cross-sectional trends in producers, products and consumption of health research, and can provide feedback about research funding and initiatives. In bibliometric audits, sampling nationally-based health professional journals may provide insights into the state of research in each affiliated profession. This thesis describes five sequential studies undertaken to investigate the historical and cross-sectional trends in the nature of research publications among a sample of Australian nursing and allied health professional journals.
All sampled professional journals evolved over their publication lifetime in terms of the nature of research they published, albeit at different rates. Research published in Australian health professional journals may be a bibliometric lens through which each affiliated professions’ research profile can be viewed. However, a consensus within the bibliometric literature must be reached before appropriate bibliometric measures can be effectively used to benchmark national professions with respect to their research profiles.
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School of Health Sciences
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Thesis (PhD)--University of South Australia, 2012.
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Copyright 2012 Louise Katherine Mary Wiles. This work is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs Australia 3.0 licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/)
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xx, 386 pages
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Includes bibliographical references. (p. 241-269)
ill.
Includes bibliographical references. (p. 241-269)
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