authors read nationalliteratures?

[ali uzun]

-----------Dear Dr. Whitney,
A recent article of mine titled `Assessing internationality of
scholarly journals through foreign authorship patterns`,
Scientometrics, Vol. 61, No.3(2004) 457-465, and the papers listed in
the references therein may be helpful. A set of major journals in
information science and scientometrics of the European or USA origin
were studied in the article.
Regards, Ali Uzun
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> You must make a distinction between scientists and physicians. To
lump
> them together is valid. You can tell from citation patterns of the
> literature outside the US that researchers read and cite the US
> literature. I just saw an analysis of citations to Lancet, Nature.
> Science, e.g,. by Chinese journals.
>
> It has often been claimed by Europeans that Americans do not read
their
> literature but I have never seen any proof of this. They were
studies
> long ago that showed that American physicians did not even cite
British
> journals, but again are we talking about research physicians or
> clinicians. The latter have barely enough time to read their own
> journals, whereever they are. However, the wide distribution of JAMA
> worldwide would indicate otherwise. Best wishes Gretchen. Gene
Garfield
>
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> greetings all,
>
>  I have a vague recollection that a study (or studies) reported,
perhaps
> by analysis of lists of references in documents, that scientists
> primarily read their national literatures, and did not stray
frequently
> into the literatures of other countries.  Is there any evidence of
this?
> Does this sound familiar to anyone?  What might I have read?  This
could
> be as old as some studies out of psychology in the 1970s.  I'm doing
a
> study of a subset of MEDLINE through DIALOG, and I'd like to be able
to
> assert that the values in the CP (country of publication) field
reflect
> what scientists in a given country READ, and the values in the CS
> (author affiliation) field reflect what they experiment with and
WRITE.
> By analysis of these fields and titles/subjects, this assertion
seems to
> be supported because there is consitency in values regarding
therapies
> explored/supported/promoted from both fields.
>
> In other words, there is consistency in both that enable me to
assert
> that country x is exploring y therapy, as opposed to country w
exploring
> z therapy.
>
> Is there literature out there that supports the idea that
scientists,
> particularly physicians, read their national literatures
predominantly,
> and write in those intellectual domains?
>
> I've already tried Tenopir/King, and it wasn't them.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>   --gw
>
>
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