Comparing Psychological abstracts and Index medicus For coverage of the journal literature in a subject area in psychology

Topsy N. Smalley

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1980, vol. 31, issue 3, 143-146

Abstract: The journal literature on a subject area in psychology—operant conditioning—as indexed in the 1978 issues of Psychological Abstracts (PA) and Index Medicus (IM) is compared. Considerable overlap is found for this subject in the coverage of journal titles by the two indexing tools, but use of both is necessary to assure a comprehensive search. The extent of overlap corresponds closely with the findings of the Bearman‐Kunberger overlap study. Considerable differences between PA and IM in their recency of coverage of the literature are found. Core journals for articles on operant conditioning are identified. Scattering of the articles among journal titles is found to conform to Bradford's law.

Date: 1980
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