An analysis of references cited from Chinese Journal of Geriatrics from 1992-2001 year / 中华老年医学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To analyze the references cited from Chinese Journal of Geriatrics from 1992 to 2001 year and to approach the regular patterns of references. Methods All references of scientificpapers printed in Chinese Journal of Geriatrics from 1992-2001 year were imputed into CP. All references of treatises, literature reviews and lectures were analyzed according to different languages, time distributions and cited half-life, etc. Results In recent 10 years the majority of references were in Chinese and English, accounting for 29.4% and 69.5%, respectively. The names of cited periodicals were much scattered, 335 periodicals in Chinese and 1 016 periodicals in English. The half-life of the value of information in Chinese and English periodicals was degraded by year. According to Bradford's law the nucleus of periodicals in Chinese was 5, which was similar to the nucleus of periodicals from 1982-1991 year. Chinese Journal of Geriatrics still took the first place in Chinese periodicals. The nucleus of periodicals in English was much changed as compared with nucleus of periodicals from 1992-2001 years. The journal "Circulation"occupied the first place. Conclusions It is easy to get all deliverable journal literature via the internet, so there was more broad collection of recent primaryjournal literature and secondarydatabase. Chinese Journal of Geriatrics took the first place in Chinese periodicals.