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Mapping The Literature Of Health Care Management, Mary K. Taylor, Meseret D. Gebremichael, Cassie Wagner Apr 2007

Mapping The Literature Of Health Care Management, Mary K. Taylor, Meseret D. Gebremichael, Cassie Wagner

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Objectives: The research provides an overview of the health care management literature and the indexing coverage of core journal literature.

Method: Citations from five source journals for the years 2002 through 2004 were studied using the protocols of the Mapping the Literature of Allied Health Project and Mapping the Literature of Nursing Project. The productivity of cited journals was analyzed by applying Bradford's Law of Scattering.

Results: Journals were the most frequently cited format, followed by books. Only 3.2% of the cited journal titles from all 5 source journals generated two-thirds of the cited titles. When only the health care …