>Purpose: The purpose was to determine the impact of online journals on the citation patterns of medical faculty. This study looked at whether researchers were more likely to limit the resources they consulted and cited to those journals available online rather than those only in print.>Setting: Faculty publications from the college of medicine at a large urban university were examined for this study. The faculty publications from a regional medical college of the same university were also examined in the study. The number of online journals available for faculty, staff, and students at this institution has increased from an initial core of 15 online journals in 1998 to over 11,000 online journals in 2004.>Methodology: Searches by author affiliation were performed in the Web of Science to find all articles written by faculty members in the college of medicine at the selected institution. Searches were conducted for the following years: 1993, 1996, 1999, and 2002. Cited references from each faculty-authored article were recorded, and the corresponding cited journals were coded into four categories based on their availability at the institution in this study: print only, print and online, online only, and not owned. Results were analyzed using SPSS.>Results: The number of journals cited per year continued to increase from 1993 to 2002. The results did not indicate that researchers were more likely to cite online journals or were less likely to cite journals only in print. At the regional location where the number of print-only journals was minimal, use of the print-only journals did decrease in 2002, although not significantly.>Conclusion/Discussion: It is possible that electronic access to information (i.e., online databases) has had a positive impact on the number of articles faculty will cite. Results of this study suggest, at this point, that faculty are still accessing the print-only collection, at least for research purposes, and are therefore not sacrificing quality for convenience.
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机译：>目的：目的是确定在线期刊对医学系教师引文方式的影响。这项研究调查了研究人员是否更有可能将他们查询和引用的资源限制为在线提供的期刊，而不是仅限于印刷的期刊。>设置：大型城市大学医学院的院系出版物为这项研究进行了检查。在研究中还检查了同一所大学地区医学院的教职员工出版物。该机构可供教职员工使用的在线期刊从最初的15种在线期刊增加到2004年的11,000多种。>方法：在Web of Science中进行搜索，以查找所选机构的医学院成员撰写的所有文章。在以下年份进行了搜索：1993、1996、1999和2002。记录了每篇教师撰写的文章的被引文献，并且根据该研究所在该研究所所提供的文献，将相应的被引用期刊分为四类：打印仅打印和在线，仅在线，不归拥有。使用SPSS分析结果。>结果：从1993年到2002年，每年引用的期刊数量持续增加。该结果并不表明研究人员更倾向于引用在线期刊或较少引用仅打印期刊。在仅打印期刊数量最少的区域，2002年使用纯打印期刊的数量确实有所减少，尽管幅度并不大。>结论/讨论： （即在线数据库）对教师引用的文章数量产生了积极影响。这项研究的结果表明，目前为止，至少出于研究目的，教师仍在访问仅打印的馆藏，因此并未为了方便而牺牲质量。
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