A tale of two citations: counting on numeracy in the digital divide

With pride, those west of the Atlantic pointed to the technological advances, the rise of Silicon Valley, and the importance of numbers in the daily lives of Americans. Trends were examined with the Spearman rank correlation. 3 We found that in 2001 JAMA had significantly fewer research titles with...

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Veröffentlicht in:	BMJ 2002-12, Vol.325 (7378), p.1452-1453
Hauptverfasser:	Gladstone, Igor M, Katz, Vern L
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Biological and medical sciences Confidence intervals General aspects Manuscripts, Medical as Topic Mathematics Medical research Medical sciences MEDLINE Numeracy Periodicals as Topic Ratios Reader response Reading, Writing, And Revalidation Trends
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Zusammenfassung:	With pride, those west of the Atlantic pointed to the technological advances, the rise of Silicon Valley, and the importance of numbers in the daily lives of Americans. Trends were examined with the Spearman rank correlation. 3 We found that in 2001 JAMA had significantly fewer research titles with numbers (16% of 184 articles v 26% of 234 for the BMJ; relative risk 0.63, 95% confidence interval 0.44 to 0.89).
ISSN:	0959-8138 0959-8146 1468-5833 1756-1833
DOI:	10.1136/bmj.325.7378.1452