Abstract
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) National Resource Center for Health Information Technology (NRC) created the Health IT Bibliography that contains peer-reviewed articles in eleven different health informatics categories. To create the bibliography, informatics experts identified what they considered the seminal articles in each category. Using the same eleven categories, an expert searcher (librarian) compiled a list of the "best" health informatics articles using information seeking and retrieval tools. The two sets of articles were then compared using high citation counts as a measure of value. The expert searcher set (8,230) contained more than 3 times the citations to chosen articles compared to the content expert set (2,382). Of 60 articles, 27% of those articles (n = 16) were included in both sets. The frequently cited journals were similar for both sets, and one-third of the same authors were cited in both sets. While citation counts and the timeliness of the articles differed in the two sets, the same authors and same journals were frequently present in both sets. A best practice for locating high-quality articles may be collaboration between expert searchers and content experts.
Highlights
Determining the best articles on a particular subject is arguably a subjective process that depends in large part on the intention of the query
The study reported here stems from a project done for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), which produced a bibliography of the best peerreviewed articles on several subjects in the field of health information technology (IT) as determined by content experts
The Health IT Bibliography had 60 articles altogether, and 60 articles were chosen for the expert searcher article sets
Summary
Determining the best articles on a particular subject is arguably a subjective process that depends in large part on the intention of the query. Many parameters can be used to determine whether or not an article is integral to a particular field. One of the most common parameters is an article’s citation rate: the number of times a particular article is cited by other papers, presentations, and conference proceedings. The study reported here stems from a project done for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), which produced a bibliography of the best peerreviewed articles on several subjects in the field of health information technology (IT) as determined by content experts. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) National Resource Center for Health Information Technology (NRC) created the Health IT Bibliography that contains peer-reviewed articles in eleven different health informatics categories. Informatics experts identified what they considered the seminal articles in each category
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