ABSTRACT
Objective To analyze the influence of discipline rankings of essential science indicators on medical related dis-ciplines research work in Chinese universities .Methods Characteristics and influencing factors of indicator data in ESI were an-alyzed .Results The indicators of ESI are unique ,objective and predictable ,and does not distinguish between author rankings . The subject classification system is unique .Conclusions The positive roles of ESI in medical related discipline research of uni-versities includes promoting the impact of articles ,promoting international cooperation of medical related disciplines in universi-ties ,and paying attention to the papers of non-first and corresponding authors .Its limitations include affecting the balanced de-velopment of medical related disciplines ,some medical related disciplines do not have independent rankings ,encourage more pa-per publishing in journals outside mainland China ,and medical college institutional statistics is difficult to improve .
