1. What is generated and what is used: a description of public health research output and citation.
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Wolfenden, Luke, Milat, Andrew J., Lecathelinais, Christophe, Sanson-Fisher, Rob W., Carey, Mariko L., Bryant, Jamie, Waller, Amy, Wiggers, John, Clinton-McHarg, Tara, and Sze Lin Yoong
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ANALYSIS of variance ,CONFIDENCE intervals ,EXPERIMENTAL design ,LABOR productivity ,PROBABILITY theory ,PUBLIC health ,RESEARCH ,RESEARCH funding ,SERIAL publications ,CITATION analysis ,CROSS-sectional method ,DATA analysis software ,DESCRIPTIVE statistics ,ODDS ratio - Abstract
The aim of this short report was to describe the output and citation rates of public health. Data-based publications and literature reviews from the year 2008, and their 5-year citation rates were extracted from 10 randomly selected public health journals. In total, 86.2% of publications were descriptive/epidemiological studies, 56.8% used cross-sectional (56.8%) designs and 77.8% were classified as research translation stage 2. Reviews and publications describing randomized controlled trials were the most highly cited, but were infrequently published. Strategies to address the discordance between public health research output and research citation may improve the impact of public health research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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