Where is obesity research published?
A paper published in the International Journal of Obesity in December raises an interesting issue - where should obesity clinicians and researchers look for published work on obesity? Unlike specialised areas in medicine, obesity is linked with virtually every medical system and condition, whether as cause, contributor, effect or affecting diagnosis and management.
It it therefore not surprising that the authors, from McMaster University in Canada, found that the three "top" obesity journals published only 19.2% of the research. More that four-fifths of the published work was to be found in a variety of journals (the authors counted 249).
Interestingly, the paper reports that only 11% of the articles they found were about clinical obesity care.
