Journal of Library and Information Sciences

Journals’ Productivity in the Literature on Health Information
Yahya Ibrahim Harande

Abstract
The purpose of the study was to outline the journals that published articles on the literature of health information and to determine the core productive journals. The study utilizes the LISA database as the main database for the study. The search term used for data removal was “Health Information”. A total of 1681 journal articles was realized from 195 journals from 2000-2010. Bradford`s law was applied to the data in order to determine the core productive journals. As a result of this exercise, six journals emerged as the core journals. The Health Information literature was found to be in harmony with the Bradford`s law of dispersion. The major language for dissemination in the literature was found to be English with (97.4%) score. Followed by French with only (1.2%) score. This indicates that a great number of relevant health information literatures could be reached through the English based journals. Information workers and researchers are hereby notified to consider the six core journals found in this study as part of their relevant sources for research and studies on health information.

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