Table I.
Original articles published in the Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care (SJPHC) with the highest number of citations per issue in 2008–2010.1
| SJPHC issue | Article title | Google Scholar cumulated citations | Thomson journals cumulated citations (SJPHC) | Impact factor (IF) citations/share of SJPHC 2010 IF | Author country |
| 2008–1 | Problems in sickness certification of patients: A qualitative study on views of 26 physicians in Sweden [7] | 35 | 21 (5) | 10/6.9% | Sweden |
| 2008–2 | Pharmacologically inappropriate prescriptions for elderly patients in general practice: How common? [8] | 24 | 18 (2) | 7/4.9% | Norway |
| 2008–3 | Secular trends in cardiovascular risk factors with a 36-year perspective: Observations from 38- and 50-year-olds in the Population Study of Women in Gothenburg [9] | 17 | 14 (4) | 6/4.2% | Sweden |
| 2008–4 | Cancer rehabilitation: Psychosocial rehabilitation needs after discharge from hospital? [10] | 18 | 13 (3) | 1/0.7% | Denmark |
| 2009–1 | Falls risk among a very old home-dwelling population [11] | 16 | 10 (0) | 5/3.5% | Finland |
| 2009–2 | Does patient education facilitate diabetic patients’ possibilities to reach national treatment targets? [12] | 9 | 6 (2) | 2/1.4% | Sweden |
| 2009–3 | The Norwegian General Practice (NORGEP) criteria for potentially inappropriate prescriptions to elderly patients [13] | 20 | 17 (2) | 5/3.5% | Norway |
| 2009–4 | GPs’ antibiotic prescription patterns for respiratory tract infections – still room for improvement [14] | 11 | 8 (1) | 1/0.7% | Norway |
| 2010–1 | Early detection of COPD combined with individualized counseling for smoking cessation: A two-year prospective study [15] | 6 | 6 (0) | Finland | |
| 2010–2 | What do GPs feel about sickness certification? A systematic search and narrative review [16] | 9 | 5 (2) | England | |
| 2010–3 | Associations between successful palliative trajectories, place of death and GP involvement [17] | 3 | 3 (1) | Denmark | |
| 2010–4 | Influence of CRP testing and clinical findings on antibiotic prescribing in adults presenting with acute cough in primary care [18] | 4 | 4 (0) | Norway |
Note: 1SJPHC citations in brackets. Impact factor citations are citations in Thomson journals during 2010. The articles’ percentage share of the 2010 impact factor follows.