Citation analysis of the Chinese Pharmacological Bulletin from 2001 to 2003 / 中国药理学通报

ABSTRACT

Aim To understand the information absorbency of Chinese Pharmacological Bulletin, analyze the theoretical sources of its’ published articles and the trend of Pharmacological research , and find out the characteristics of literature request of the scientists working in the field of Pharmacological research. Method The citation analysis is used to analyze the references cited in 847 articles in Chinese Pharmacological Bulletin from 2001～2003. Result Citation rate is 85.24%, and 11.02 citations per article. Main types of citations are journals(94.88%) and books(4.90%). The Price Index is 42.72%, the self-citation rate is 3.81%. The references from the high-ranked 30 journals are the 30.14% of all the references. Conclusion The articles in Chinese Pharmacological Bulletin concern the lots of journals in the biomedicine, most citation are from the English journals, and the half-cited life is longer than other journals, citation ratio should be improved.