Pardo C, Reolid M, Delicado MV, Mallebrera E, Garcia-Meseguer MJ "Nursing research in Spain: bibliometrics of references of research papers in the decade 1985-1994" JOURNAL OF ADVANCED NURSING 35 (6): 933-943 SEP 2001
Eugene Garfield
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Carmen Pardo : e-mail : cpardo at enf-ab.uclm.es
TITLE Nursing research in Spain: bibliometrics of references of
research papers in the decade 1985-1994
AUTHORS Pardo C, Reolid M, Delicado MV, Mallebrera E, Garcia-Meseguer MJ
JOURNAL JOURNAL OF ADVANCED NURSING 35 (6): 933-943 SEP 2001
Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 44
Times Cited: 0
Abstract:
Background. Spain is one of the few European countries to have recently
totally incorporated the study of nursing into the
university sector. Bibliometric studies may be of a great help for the
consolidation of nursing research.
Aim of the study. The aim of this paper is to describe bibliographic
references in Spanish nursing research papers and their evolution over a
decade.
Method. The method consists of a retrospective bibliometric study of a
sample (cluster sampling) of 622 research papers(original papers and review
papers), which were contained in the Spanish nursing journals Enfermeria
Cientifica, Revista ROL de Enfermeria, Enfermeria Clinica and Enfermeria
Integral, and published from 1985 to 1994. The journal Nursing Research
was selected for qualitative comparative purposes. A series of classic
bibliometric indexes were used.
Results. The mean of references per paper is 10.64 +/- 10.42; this increased
over time (P < 0.001). Review papers have more references (P < 0.001). Price
index (percentage of references published during the last 5 years) is 44%
and the Insularity (percentage of references published in same country as
the article) is 55%. References to journals predominate (58.6%), with a
growing tendency for references to Spanish nursing journals, although they
are still scarce (18.1% of the references to journals). Spanish is the
language of most of the references (60.3%), the second language being
English (36.1%).
Conclusions. Bibliographic references in Spanish nursing research papers are
scarce and not very specific: this happens both in regard to Nursing
Research and to publications in other national and international science
areas. However, there is an increasing tendency of references (including
references to nursing journals) in the period analysed. The age of the
references places Spanish nursing in ail intermediate position between the
'hard' sciences and the humanities; and, according to the type of
documentation used, we find it halfway between experimental and natural
sciences, and technologies and social sciences. There has been a slight
increase in references in English in recent years.
Author Keywords:
bibliometrics, Spanish nursing research, analysis of references,
bibliographic references
Addresses:
Pardo C, Escuela Univ Enfermeria, Campus Univ,Edificio Benjamin Palencia,
Albacete 02071, Spain
Univ Castilla La Mancha, Dept Nursing, Albacete, Spain
Primary Care Ctr 4, Albacete, Spain
Publisher:
BLACKWELL SCIENCE LTD, OXFORD
IDS Number:
474VZ
ISSN:
0309-2402
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