1. 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 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), 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), It was the most cited article with 86 times cited.