Quantitative Analysis of Articles Published on HIFU before 2006 / 中华医学教育探索杂志

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Objective:To explore,on the basis of principles of bibliometrics,the distribution of the writers,institutions,regions and journals of the publications on HIFU and the literature amount,and to learn the situation of cross discipline study on HIFU and of the different regions where the articles on HIFU came in order to make a clear view of the characteristics and the status of co-operations in HIFU work and to determine,among them,the key authors,key institutes and key regions so that the progress of HIFU study was turned out.Method:Based on the information drawn from VIP-database,bibliometric method was used to analyze all the data on HIFU before the year of 2007.Result:833 articles were published before the year of 2007,in which 686(72.87%) were written by more than one authors,with a degree of collaboration as 2.78.The number of articles by mono-author was 312(37.45%).186 articles(22.33%) were from Chongqing,taking the first place in number.134 of the key authors published 410 papers(49.22%).10 of the institutes with more than 9 articles turned out 249 papers(29.89%).2000 saw an obvious change in the situation of publications on HIFU and the collaboration among the authors and from that year to 2006,792 papers were published with a degree of collaboration as 3.72 and the average rate of co-authership as 81.12%.Conclusion:The authors on HIFU,with a group as their key authors who were advanced in academy,productive in papers and influential on various journals in medical field,were widely distributed and had a high cooperative rate.But it was also revealed that the researchers in the field of HIFU were unevenly distributed,with the institutions in Chonqing taking the lead.