Sixty-Five Years of Physical Therapy: Bibliometric Analysis of Research Publications From 1945 Through 2010.

The article discusses a study which examined changes in producers, products and consumers of the journal "Physical Therapy" during the 1945-2010 period. A bibliometric audit tool was employed in this study. Results of the study showed that there were substantial shifts in the nature of research published in the journal during this period. It also found that a cross-sectional survey or randomized controlled trial design was used by the typical paper in 2010.