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OBJECTIVE: To carry out the citation analysis of publications in Chinese Journal of Preventive Medicine (CJPM) among the preventive medicine authors and analyze the impact of this magazine in preventive medicine domain. METHODS: Using Chinese scientific periodical literature evaluation and statistical analysis system (V1.0), the citation status of all CJPM publications in 2000-2005 was analyzed, the analysis covered 21 columns, including the review, editorial and original article, the data were collected up to November, 2007. RESULTS: From 2000 to 2005, CJPM had more than 30 columns and carried 1196 articles and 92. 89% (1111/1196) articles were from 21 main columns. During 2003 to 2005, the impact factors of CJPM were 0. 897, 1.011 and 0. 891 respectively. Among 21 main columns, the citation frequency of six columns including original article, editorial, review, courses, discussion and case report were higher than 80%. In five columns (original article, editorial, report, review and academic trends), the average citation frequency of individual articles was more than 4 times. The citation frequency of 20 authors was higher than 20 times and these authors were from medical schools, teaching hospitals, centers of diseases control and the research institutes. The individual citation frequency of 17 articles was more than 20 times and the individual citation frequency of three articles was more than 50 times. 34.9% of the citations of the 2000-2005 CJPM articles were from the top 20 journals, and the self-citation rate was 4. 85%. CONCLUSION: The publications in Chinese Journal of Preventive Medicine are most frequently cited, which indicated that those publications have high quality, this journal has a great effect in preventive medicine field of China.
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Bibliometrics , Periodicals as Topic/statistics & numerical data , Preventive Medicine , ChinaABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE: To analysis the discrepancy of citations in different features of the Chinese Journal of Internal Medicine (Chin J Intern Med) and other 3 foreign journals (BMJ, JAMA, Ann Intern Med). METHODS: Citations of articles published from 1998 to 2002 in major features of the four journals were calculated. RESULTS: In the 5 years, the average number of citation original articles in Chin J Intern Med was 6.55, in BMJ 15.78, in JAMA 34.73 and Ann Intern Med 30.37; that of commentary articles was 3.82, 9.26, 18.38 and 13.79, respectively. In the recent five years, 86% citations were devoted to English language articles, 14% Chinese language articles, less than 1% Japanese articles, few other language articles. Price index analysis indicated the value for BMJ, JAMA, Ann Intern Med and Chin J Intern Med was 0.58, 0.57, 0.42 and 0.50, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: The discrepancy in average number of citation articles in different features of the four journals is not significantly different, even in time of their citation. The citation of articles is not varied in languages in Chin J Intern Med.
