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Eminence of Contributors to the Field of Occupational Therapy: A Text Book Definition
Author(s) -
DEAN ELIZABETH,
ROSE SUZANNE
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
australian occupational therapy journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.595
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1440-1630
pISSN - 0045-0766
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1630.1988.tb01597.x
Subject(s) - citation , occupational therapy , rank (graph theory) , citation index , citation analysis , medicine , psychology , field (mathematics) , social science , statistics , library science , mathematics , sociology , computer science , physical therapy , combinatorics , pure mathematics
This study used citation analysis to assess eminence of contributors to the profession of occupational therapy. Authors were rank ordered according to frequency of citation in an established text of occupational therapy. Rank orders were compared for authors cited in three editions of Willard and Spackman's Principles of Occupational Therapy 1947, 1965 and 1983. Rank order for authors with more than three citations in the 1983 edition was compared with the rank order for the same authors based on frequency of citation in the Science Citation Index R and the Social Sciences Citation Index R for 1982 and 1983. Correlations of the rank orders in text and citation indexes were statistically nonsignificant (p > .05). Also, chi‐square analysis failed to support a relationship between the citation frequency of both highly and poorly cited contributors to the text and their citation frequencies in the Citation Indexes (p > .05). We observed more referencing in the recent editions compared with earlier editions of Willard and Spackman. These results are discussed in light of recent trends in occupational therapy toward research and the establishment of a unique body knowledge for the profession. We predict that future studies will demonstrate a stronger relationship between individuals acknowledged as eminent contributors to the profession and their citation frequencies in the professional literature.