Citation analysis of the Chinese Journal of Radiation Ocology from 2001 to 2004 / 中华放射肿瘤学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To study the information absorbency of Chinese Journal of Radiation Oncology and it's half-citing life, find out the core journals and characteristics of literature requested by scientists, and analyze the trend of Radiation Oncology research. Methods The citation analysis is used to analyze the references cited in 475 articles in Chinese Journal of Radiation Oncology from 2001-2004. Results Citation rate is 70.5%,and there are 8.6 citations per article. Main types of citations are journals(91.7%) and books(7.8%). The Price Index is 41.6%,and the self-citation rate is 6.2%. The percent of citations from the high-ranked 20 journals are 57.0%. Conclusions The articles in Chinese Journal of Radiation Oncology concern most journals in the medicine,the most citations are from the English journals. The half-citing life becomes longer than research in 2003. It shows that the use of newly-published articles should be improved.