A Comparison of Psychiatry and Internal Medicine: A Bibliometric Study

Autor/inn/en	Stone, Karina; Whitham, Elizabeth A.; Ghaemi, S. Nassir
Titel	A Comparison of Psychiatry and Internal Medicine: A Bibliometric Study
Quelle	In: Academic Psychiatry, 36 (2012) 2, S.129-132 (4 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1042-9670
DOI	10.1176/appi.ap.10030048
Schlagwörter	Medical Education; Psychiatry; Internal Medicine; Adolescents; Archives; Literature; Comparative Analysis; Journal Articles; Epidemiology; Graduate Students; Social Science Research + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Medizinische Ausbildung; Psychiatrie; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Archivwesen; Archiv; Literatur; Journal article; Zeitschriftenaufsatz; Epidemiologie; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Social scientific research; Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung
Abstract	Objective: Psychiatric education needs to expose students to a broad range of topics. One resource for psychiatric education, both during initial training and in later continuing medical education, is the scientific literature, as published in psychiatric journals. The authors assessed current research trends in psychiatric journals, as compared with internal-medicine counterparts and examined their relevance to psychiatric education. Methods: The authors classified abstracts and original articles as biological or non-biological, based on methodology, from 2008 in "Archives of General Psychiatry" and "The American Journal of Psychiatry," as compared with "The Archives of Internal Medicine" and "Annals of Internal Medicine." Results: Biological and non-biological studies were similarly frequent in psychiatric journals (48.2% and 51.8%, respectively). Internal-medicine journals had a non-biological and epidemiological predominance (22.2% biological, 77.8% non-biological: epidemiological, 59.9%; reviews, 21.4%; clinical, 13.2%; other, 5.4%). Conclusion: Psychiatric journals publish more biological studies than internal-medicine journals. This tendency may influence psychiatric education and practice in a biological direction, with less attention to psychosocial or clinical approaches to psychiatry. (Contains 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10