Analysis of cited literatures in Chinese Journal of Geriatrics published from 2008 to 2012 / 中华老年医学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To analyze the citation characteristics of literatures in Chinese Journal of Geriatrics published from 2008 to 2012.Methods According to the information from Wanfang database,articles in Chinese Journal of Geriatrics published from 2008 to 2012 were surveyed.The quantity,type of languages and the self-cited rate,etc were analyzed,and the Price's index,half life of literatures were calculated.Results Of the 1567 papers published in the journal from 2008 to 2012,1479 papers cited 16054 literatures,with a citation rate of 94.4％.The average number of citations in each paper was 10.25.The major language of citation was English (73.33％),followed by Chinese (26.67％),and only one citation was in Japanese.The self cited rates of author and periodical were 1.20％ and 5.23％,respectively.The Price's index was 45.71％ and the half-life of literatures was 4.27 years.Conclusions The authors of Chinese Journal of Geriatrics cite a wide range of literature,and the journal plays an important role in publicizing research achievements of geriatric medicine.However,the average number of citations in each paper,timeliness and novelty of cited literatures,diversity of citation languages need further improving.