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For the Chinese Journal of Neurology, it is faced with an opportunity for the state encouraging Chinese authors to publish their papers in domestic journals, but it is also faced with the challenges of Science Citation Index journals competing for manuscript sources and changing of readers′ reading habits as well as the competition of domestic similar medical journals. With the establishment of the Seventh Editorial Board of Chinese Journal of Neurology, the Journal will mainly take the following measures to recreate brilliance in the next four years: attracting more high-quality original articles by strengthening solicitation of manuscripts and shortening publishing delay, improving the quality of editorials and review articles, enriching the content and columns of the Journal, publishing more high-level guidelines and consensuses, being more open and inclusive, improving digital construction, enhancing academic service capacity, taking into account both domestic and international orientation.
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Objective To investigate the quality and academic level of Traditional Chinese Drugs Research and Clinical Pharmacology by analyzing the cited articles.Methods Statistic Analysis and evaluation of citation of articles which were issued in Traditional Chinese Drugs Research and Clinical Pharmacology from the year of 2000 to 2004 and cited in the database of Chinese Biomedical Citation Index and the website of China Knowledge Information,was carried out by literature measurement method.Results There were 770 articles issued in Traditional Chinese Drugs Research and Clinical Pharmacology from the year of 2000 to 2004,the citation rate was 52.59 %,and the average citation frequency of each article was 3.22.There were a large amount of articles with high citation rate.The institutions of cited authors covered 27 provinces (including municipalities and autonomous regions ),special zones and countries,in which Guangdong,Beijing and Jiangsu provinces took the leading in the research of traditional Chinese medicine.The journal was cited by other 350 periodicals,and the citation rate was 93.72 %.The self-citation rate was 6.27 %.Conclusion The articles issued in Traditional Chinese Drugs Research and Clinical Pharmacolog have a high quality,and the journal is one of the most important information suppliers for the research of traditional Chinese drugs and clinical pharmacology and also a core journal for the development of new Chinese drugs and for the research of clinical pharmacology.