ABSTRACT
Objective To evaluate the comprehensive influence of preventive medicine journals and provide ideas for the internationalization of "Chinese Journal of Endemiology".Methods The periodicals of impact factor ＞ 1.0 were selected as the research objects in the 2016 edition of "China Science and Technology Journals Citation Report (Core Edition)" in category of preventive medicine and public health comprehensive and epidemiological,and environmental medicine journals.Measurement indicators of 2011-2015 were collected from "China Science and Technology Journals Citation Report (Core Edition)" (2011-2016) of research objects (including total cited frequency,influencing factor,immediacy index,his cited rate,the source of hterature,ratio of international papers,and ratio of fund papers).Academic impact assessment score (I),relative academic impact assessment score (It) and 5-year growth rate of each journal were calculated;the comprehensive influence of journals was compared and analyzed through the dynamic assessment model of academic influence of sci-tech periodicals.Results A total of 8 kinds of Journals were selected as research objects,namely "Public Health and Preventive Medicine","Disease Surveillance","China Public Health","Chinese Journal of Schistosomiasis Prevention and Treatment","Chinese Journal of Endemiology","Chinese Journal of Disease Control","Chinese Journal of Epidemiology",and "Chinese Journal of Preventive Medicine".The average annual citation frequency of the 8 kinds of journals in 5 years were 958.8,1 609.0,5 041.0,1 557.4,1 494.8,1 796.6,4 906.8,and 2 219.0,"Chinese Journal of Endemiology" ranked the 7th.The five-year average impact factors of the 8 kinds of journals were 0.583 2,0.911 2,0.802 4,1.297 0,1.111 0,0.999 6,1.306 2,and 1.186 0,"Chinese Joumal of Endemiology" ranked the 4th.The Ir values of 2011-2015 were 0.12,0.24,3.27,0.48,0.35,0.66,2.59 and 1.06,respectively,"Chinese Journal of Endemiology" ranked the 6th.The five-year growth rate were 1.81％,0.53％,-0.06％,-0.39％,0.57％,0.71％,0.19％,and 0.57％,respectively,"Chinese Journal of Endemiology" ranked the 3rd.Conclusions The overall academic quality of preventive medicine journals is high,but the growth rate is not balanced.In the future,we should focus on increasing the frequency of citation,influencing factors and his citation rate of "Chinese Journal of Endemiology".