The classification of biomedicaljournals by research level

摘要

A new method of classification of biomedical research journals into clinical or basic, or somewhere in between, is described. This is based on counting articles that have one of about 100 "clinical" title words, or one of a similar number of "basic" title words, or both. It allows over 3000 journals in the SCI and SSCI to be classified rapidly and transparently.