Analysis of global trends in military medicine research / 军事医学

ABSTRACT

Objective To explore the trends of global research on military medicine,such as publication trends,research priorities,research topics,research routes and sources of publication.Methods The data was from the Web of Science core collection of Thomson Reuters Technology,Inc.,and the retrieval time was up to September 2016.The retrieval involved related disciplines of military medical papers published from WOS.Trends,research priorities,research programs,research routes and published sources were analyzed statistically by using Web of Science classification standards.Results A total of 42 986 articles were retrieved,and there were 257 research priorities according to this classification.In terms of the trends of military medicine related papers,the number of papers began to increase considerably in the late twentieth century after the two wave crests of two world wars.Over the past 5 years,more than 2000 papers have been published in this field.As for the spheres of research,the related papers involved 199 fields of research,155 of which had more than ten papers published.According to the analysis of hot spots of research,the range of high-frequency words involved was very extensive,including the type of disease (posttraumatic stress disorder,depression,and traumatic brain injury),the type of patients (veterans,female,and adult),regional distribution (the United States,Iraq,and Afghanistan),relevant parameters (prevalence,risk factors and mortality) and the related medical technology and means (nursing,exercise,prevention,modeling).There were 3132 periodicals involved in related papers,and there were 635 periodicals that published more than 10 papers.The number of military medical conference papers was relatively small(a total of 2914),involving 1771 meetings.The top 20 journals included Military Medicine,Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine,British Medical Journal,The Lancet,The Journal of the American Medical Association.Conclusion Through the retrieval research of main factors,we can see the basic developments of military medicine abroad.