Defining
and Searching Pharmacogenetics and Pharmacogenomics to Identify Its Core Research Journals
Claudia Lascar and Philip Barnett
Science & Technology Libraries 26(1):69–88
(2005)
DOI: 10.1300/J122v26n01_05
Pharmacogenetics and pharmacogenomics, an intertwined
discipline, is an important and growing area of interdisciplinary
research. One of the challenges in this
field is locating and retrieving all the relevant literature on any topic. Analysis of subject coverage reveals the
online databases most needed. Several databases; Chemical Abstracts, BIOSIS,
MEDLINE, EMBASE, CancerLit,
Science Citation Index, Pascal, Derwent Drug File, International
Pharmaceutical Abstracts, Biotechnobase, Biotechnology
& Bioengineering, and Biotechnology
Resource each contain unique references not included in the other
databases. While searching using the
root terms “pharmacogenomic or pharmacogenetic”
retrieves most of the relevant literature in this field, often specific topics
must be searched using strategies tailored to the exact subjects being
sought. Citation analysis and subject
coverage examination reveal this field's most relevant journals, the ones most
needed by researchers in pharmacogenomics and pharmacogenetics.