Is Medical Research Informing Professional Practice More Highly Cited? Evidence from AHFS DI Essentials in Drugs.com

Thelwall, Mike; Kousha, Kayvan; Abdoli, Mahshid

dc.contributor.author	Thelwall, Mike
dc.contributor.author	Kousha, Kayvan
dc.contributor.author	Abdoli, Mahshid
dc.date.accessioned	2017-02-15T16:03:05Z
dc.date.available	2017-02-15T16:03:05Z
dc.date.issued	2017-02-21
dc.identifier.citation	Thelwall, M., Kousha, K., & Abdoli, M. (2017). Is medical research informing professional practice more highly cited? Evidence from AHFS DI Essentials in drugs.com. Scientometrics, 112 (1), pp 509-527.
dc.identifier.issn	0138-9130
dc.identifier.doi	10.1007/s11192-017-2292-3
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2436/620381
dc.description	This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Springer in Scientometrics on 21/02/2017, available online: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-017-2292-3 The accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version.
dc.description.abstract	Citation-based indicators are often used to help evaluate the impact of published medical studies, even though the research has the ultimate goal of improving human wellbeing. One direct way of influencing health outcomes is by guiding physicians and other medical professionals about which drugs to prescribe. A high profile source of this guidance is the AHFS DI Essentials product of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, which gives systematic information for drug prescribers. AHFS DI Essentials documents, which are also indexed by Drugs.com, include references to academic studies and the referenced work is therefore helping patients by guiding drug prescribing. This article extracts AHFS DI Essentials documents from Drugs.com and assesses whether articles referenced in these information sheets have their value recognised by higher Scopus citation counts. A comparison of mean log-transformed citation counts between articles that are and are not referenced in AHFS DI Essentials shows that AHFS DI Essentials references are more highly cited than average for the publishing journal. This suggests that medical research influencing drug prescribing is more cited than average.
dc.format	application/pdf
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Springer
dc.relation.url	https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-017-2292-3
dc.subject	Clinical research
dc.subject	citation analysis
dc.subject	Clinical practice
dc.subject	Drug prescribing
dc.subject	Drugs.com
dc.title	Is Medical Research Informing Professional Practice More Highly Cited? Evidence from AHFS DI Essentials in Drugs.com
dc.type	Journal article
dc.identifier.journal	Scientometrics
dc.date.accepted	2017-02-01
rioxxterms.funder	University of Wolverhampton
rioxxterms.identifier.project	UoW120217MT
rioxxterms.version	AM
rioxxterms.licenseref.uri	https://creativecommons.org/CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate	2018-05-01
dc.source.volume	112
dc.source.issue	1
dc.source.beginpage	509
dc.source.endpage	527
refterms.dateFCD	2018-07-18T15:16:40Z
refterms.versionFCD	AM
refterms.dateFOA	2018-05-01T00:00:00Z
html.description.abstract	Citation-based indicators are often used to help evaluate the impact of published medical studies, even though the research has the ultimate goal of improving human wellbeing. One direct way of influencing health outcomes is by guiding physicians and other medical professionals about which drugs to prescribe. A high profile source of this guidance is the AHFS DI Essentials product of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, which gives systematic information for drug prescribers. AHFS DI Essentials documents, which are also indexed by Drugs.com, include references to academic studies and the referenced work is therefore helping patients by guiding drug prescribing. This article extracts AHFS DI Essentials documents from Drugs.com and assesses whether articles referenced in these information sheets have their value recognised by higher Scopus citation counts. A comparison of mean log-transformed citation counts between articles that are and are not referenced in AHFS DI Essentials shows that AHFS DI Essentials references are more highly cited than average for the publishing journal. This suggests that medical research influencing drug prescribing is more cited than average.