Quantitative Trends of Chinese Medicine Research Sin Kan Teng1*, Po Wen Shih1, Yee-Shuan Lee2 and Yuh-Shan Ho1# 1School of Public Health, Taipei Medical University 2Bibliometric Centre, Taipei Medical University - Wan-Fang Hospital Introduction Chinese medicine was part of the long history of China. Chinese medicine is a complete medical system that has diagnosed, treated, and prevented illness for over twenty-three centuries. While it can remedy ailments and alter states of mind, Chinese medicine can also enhance recuperative power, immunity, and the capacity for pressure, work, and creativity. As world has pushed toward the western and known as the more scientific based medicine and practice, a bibliometric analysis was performed to evaluate the quantitative performance of Chinese medicine research activity in the world. Documents used in the study were extracted from online version of Science Citation Index (SCI) from 1991 to 2002. Analysis was approached with variables including authorship, country distribution, citation pattern, source, document type, and language. Methodology The data for this study were based on Science Citation Index (SCI) database on the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A. “Chinese Medicine” was used as the keywords to search as a part of the title, abstract or keyword. Results and Discussion 93% of the papers were published in English, 3.8% Chinese, 2.6% German and 0.47% Japanese and 0.12% French and Russian 849 papers were published in 352 journals by 34 countries with an average annual production of 71 Total citation: 3058 Citation per publication: 3.60 Publication output and citation of various number of authors Publication and citation of various page counts Annual publication output and CPP P: Publication, C: Citation, CPP: Citation per publication, RCR: Relative citation rate, No-: Independent, In-: International coloration Publication, citation, CPP and RCR of the most 10 contributing countries Publication, citation and CPP of various document types Conclusion 63% of the documents were published by at least one author originated from Asia but 93% were published in English and single-authored was the most common collaboration style. “Ernst, E. (1998), Harmless herbs, A review of the recent literature. American Journal of Medicine, 104 (2), 170-178. It was the most cited review paper with 129 times cited. “Yano, H., Mizoguchi, A., Fukuda, K., Haramaki, M., Ogasawara, S., Momosaki, S. and Kojiro, M. (1994), The herbal medicine Sho-Saiko-To inhibits proliferation of cancer cell-lines by inducing apoptosis and arrest at the g(0)- g(1)-phase. Cancer Research, 54 (2), 448-454. It was the most cited article with 86 times cited.