Bibliometric Analysis of Clinical Molecular Diagnosis Based on SCI Database from 1986 to Aug.2015 / 现代检验医学杂志

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Objective To analyze literature distribution and research of clinical molecular diagnosis in recent years using bib-liometric method.Methods The “clinicalmolecular diagnosis”as the topic,the papers related to clinical molecular diagnosis were searched from the database of “Web of Sciences”(from 1986 to 2015.8.31).The resulting papers were analyzed using bibliometric method concerning the paper numbers,countries/districts,institutes,journal distribution,etc.Summary of the times cited and citing papers were also investigated.Results A total of 6 279 papers were obtained from the database,and the annual number of publications and citations increased all the time.United States and West European countries (France, Italy,Germany,England,Spain,etc.)issued the largest number of papers.The mean number of citation and h-index were 16.6 times and 118,respectively.The papers about the usage of clinical molecular diagnosis on disease diagnosis,treatment and prognosis had the most citations.Conclusion Clinical molecular diagnostics technology is in the development stage.It plays a larger role in the diagnosis and treatment of disease.The application of this technology may improve our services lev-el significantly.