ABSTRACT
Objective To reveal the tendency in clinical nutrition research in chinese journals by bibliometric analysis.Methods Literature was searched in Chinese Biomedical Databases (CBM) of SinoMed.By using Noteexpress software,the year distribution,document cartier classifications,research areas,cited frequency of articles and first author distribution were analyzed.Results The number of Chinese literature on clinical nutrition had increased steadily from 1 paper in 1974 to 1980 papers in 2011.The journals with more clinical nutrition articles are mainly professional journals,accounted for 9.21％.Research in the recent 5 years was mainly focused on the modes and timing of nutrition support.The proportions of studies on parenteral nutrition and enternal nutrition were close.Conclusion Clinical nutrition has became one of the hot research topics in China in recent years,although the appropriate and reasonable use of clinical nutrition remain challenging.