Tracing the Social Work Literature: Exploring Connections to Allied Health through Citation Analysis

社工文獻引文分析：以引用分析法探討其與協聯健康文獻之關聯

10.6182/jlis.2015.13(1).015

Caitlin Bakker

社會工作 ； 書目計量學 ； 引文分析 ； 協聯健康 ； 社會科學 ； Social Work ； Bibliometrics ； Citation Analysis ； Allied Health ； Social Science

圖書資訊學刊

13卷1期（2015 / 06 / 01）

15 - 31

英文

本研究的目標是在辨識出社工領域的核心期刊、最常被引用的資料類型與引文年齡，以評估社工文獻引用非社工領域期刊的情形，並進一步比較協聯健康引文及一般社會科學引文的狀況。研究最終目的是希望產出值得參考的數據，以支援社工圖書館館員的館藏評鑑工作，並讓館員對社工領域知識有更進一步的瞭解，能更有效率地提供圖書館指導服務。本研究檢驗28,269筆引文，共計來自567篇論文。研究結果發現，期刊論文（69.90%）是最常被引用的格式，專書（17.69%）次之；超過91%的引文是1990年之後出版的，且超過50%的引文是10年內出版的文獻。在2,520種被引期刊中，有32種最常被引的期刊（1.27%），合計被引了6,612次（33.46%）；且在這32種期刊中，僅有6種是屬於社工領域，其它則來自不同的學科領域，包括心理學、公共衛生、精神醫學、家庭與性別研究、兒童醫學、醫學領域。再者，社工文獻的引文類型和引文年齡分布，與心理學、醫務管理、衛生教育、及護理學領域非常雷同，與成癮治療和社會學領域文獻則相差甚大。基於研究結果，本文也討論了對圖書館實務工作的啟發。社工是一個複雜和跨領域的學科，其引用文獻類型、引文年齡、及引用學科都非常的廣，圖書館員在進行館藏工作與讀者服務時，需要特別注意社工領域的多元特質，以服務這個快速成長的學科領域。

Social work is a complex and multidisciplinary field drawing on a wide range of literature in terms of format, age, and discipline. Librarians in both collections and public services must be aware of this diversity in order to serve this rapidly growing field. This study was designed to identify core journals in the social work field, the most commonly cited formats and the age of citations, to assess the use of non-social work journals in the social work literature, and to draw comparisons to results in allied health and social science disciplines. The ultimate goal of this work is to provide librarians supporting social work programs with data which can contribute to their assessment of collections, both for maintenance and accreditation, and which can allow them to have a broader understanding of the field and a more effective approach to instruction. 28,269 citations from 567 source articles were examined. Journal articles were the most commonly cited format (69.90%), followed by books (17.69%). Over 91% of all citations came from materials published after 1990 and over 50% of citations came from materials published in the last ten years. Of the 2,520 journals cited, 32 top journals (1.27%) accounted for 6,612 (33.46%) of all citations to journals. Of those 32 journals, six were assigned to the field of social work. The remaining core journals came from the fields of psychology, public health, psychiatry, family and gender studies, pediatrics, and medicine. Format distribution and citation age were found to be similar to that of psychology, health care management, health education, and nurse practitioners. There was little similarity with the fields of addictions treatment and sociology. Practical implications for librarians are discussed.

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