Public health citation patterns: an analysis of the American Journal of Public Health, 2003–2005

Objectives: The research sought to determine the publication types cited most often in public health as well as the most heavily cited journal titles.Methods: From a pool of 33,449 citations in 934 articles published in the 2003–2005 issues of American Journal of Public Health, 2 random samples were drawn: one (n = 1,034) from the total set of citations and one (n = 1,016) from the citations to journal articles. For each sampled citation,...