Abstract
Expertise in the treatment of wounded and mentally damaged military personnel can be
transferred to the clinical care of civilian patients by military clinicians though academic
publications and working alongside civilian colleagues. Citations to papers written by military authors by civilian researchers can show the transfer of this military knowledge into
civilian practice. We examined citations to UK and US academic papers on military physical and mental injury from 2001 to 2018 in the Web of Science, and determined the numbers from civilian and military sources in the authors’ own country, and for the US papers,
also the Veterans Administration. United States civilian researchers contributed to 52% of
the US citations in 2006, rising to 65% in 2018. The numbers of US citing papers from the
individual states correlated fairly well with their population sizes. For the UK, civilian citations to its papers also increased with time, but were heavily concentrated in London and
Birmingham. This study shows that it is possible to track the difusion of knowledge in the
experience of treating combat casualties from military authors to subsequent military and
civilian publications through analysis of the citation history of the original papers.
transferred to the clinical care of civilian patients by military clinicians though academic
publications and working alongside civilian colleagues. Citations to papers written by military authors by civilian researchers can show the transfer of this military knowledge into
civilian practice. We examined citations to UK and US academic papers on military physical and mental injury from 2001 to 2018 in the Web of Science, and determined the numbers from civilian and military sources in the authors’ own country, and for the US papers,
also the Veterans Administration. United States civilian researchers contributed to 52% of
the US citations in 2006, rising to 65% in 2018. The numbers of US citing papers from the
individual states correlated fairly well with their population sizes. For the UK, civilian citations to its papers also increased with time, but were heavily concentrated in London and
Birmingham. This study shows that it is possible to track the difusion of knowledge in the
experience of treating combat casualties from military authors to subsequent military and
civilian publications through analysis of the citation history of the original papers.
| Original language | English |
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| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Scientometrics |
| Publication status | Published - 20 Nov 2020 |