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Table 2 Journals read and the number of articles categorized for all of 2006 (Journals are in order of number of KT articles for both high- and low-yield journals).

From: A cross-sectional study of the number and frequency of terms used to refer to knowledge translation in a body of health literature in 2006: a Tower of Babel?

Journals read

Articles Read

All KT articles*

KT applications*

KT theory*

Journals with substantial numbers of KT articles

BMJ

520

150 (29%)

31 (6%)

23 (5%)

Annals of Internal Medicine

268

116 (43%)

22 (8%)

7 (3%)

JAMA

312

87 (29%)

18 (6%)

4 (1%)

Social Science and Medicine

530

87 (16%)

47 (9%)

57 (11%)

Journal of Advanced Nursing

265

47 (18%)

35 (13%)

27 (10%)

Health Affairs

205

40 (20%)

16 (8%)

12 (2%)

Mean percentage of KT articles in high yield journals

2,100

25.8%

8.3%

5.1%

Journals with few KT articles

    

Journal of the Medical Library Association

59

16 (27%)

8(14%)

2 (3%)

Addiction

168

13 (8%)

9 (6%)

7 (4%)

International Journal of Nursing Practice

48

9 (19%)

5 (10%)

5 (10%)

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

148

8 (5%)

4 (3%)

1 (1%)

Nursing Research

49

7 (14%)

6 (12%)

7 (14%)

Nursing Inquiry

31

1 (3%)

0 (0%)

1 (3%)

Mean percentage of KT articles in low yield journals

503

12.7%

7.5%

5.8%

  1. *Percent in each journal
  2. Letters, editorials, comments and commentaries, book reviews, and news items were excluded.