THE ARG PUBLICATION LIST “B” PAPERS: THE FIRST 1,000

These charts indicate the steady growth and productivity of the Alcohol Research Group through the appearance of research studies in peer-reviewed  journals and books.  During the first two decades between 1959 and 1979, the Social Research Group was a modest academic unit with an equally modest number of publications annually, some 2 to 8 papers.  When afterwards the researchers affiliated themselves with medical and public health centers, the group focused on alcohol studies, becoming the Alcohol Research Group. The subsequent two decades between 1980 and 2000 reflect its encompassing a NIAAA-funded National Alcohol Research Center.  Annual publications now rose to a typical 25 to 35, with a peak of 58 in 1993. Since 2000, ARG has been maintaining a strong research program with an ever expanding development of topics and analyses.

The Publication List also includes presentation papers at professional society meetings.  These “E” papers now number more than 750. Occasionally, ARG publishes technical reports, “C” papers.

The 1,000^th "B" paper was not B1000

Some "B" numbers were assigned to papers that were subsequently withdrawn, were otherwise never issued (publisher’s decision), or had referred to an entire issue (erroneous entry) or a conference item (erroneous entry). Moreover, translations of a B paper, or reprinted in a different journal or book, were given a lower case suffix, i.e., B251a. Translations and intact reprints were not counted toward The One Thousand; unpublished appendices or local translations, also assigned a suffix, were not included in the tally. If, however, a paper was expanded slightly or abridged somewhat by the author for a new journal or book outlet, it was counted, being a revision.  A scientific article was given a B number once it achieved “in press” status.

Cherpitel, Cheryl J.; Ye, Yu; and Bond, Jason (2005). Attributable risk of injury associated with alcohol use: a cross-national meta-analysis from the Emergency Room Collaborative Alcohol Analysis Project. American Journal of Public Health 95(2), 266-272. (B994)

 Page updated 27 December 2005