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Chinese research status in emergency medicine journals: a bibliometric analysis based on Science Citation Index Expanded database

  • JU-FANG SHAO1
  • XIANG-WEI YING2
  • HUI-YUN SHEN3

1Editorial Office of World Journal of Emergency Medicine, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China

2Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou, China

3Editorial Office of Chinese Journal of Emergency Medicine, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China

DOI: 10.22514/SV111.052016.7 Vol.11,Issue 1,May 2016 pp.103-120

Published: 02 May 2016

*Corresponding Author(s): JU-FANG SHAO E-mail: nancysjf@163.com

Abstract

Background. Emergency medicine in China has undergone tremendous growth. This study was conducted to evaluate the Chinese scientific output on emergency medicine in Science Citation Index Expanded

(SCIE) in the Web of Science during the period of 2000–2013.

Methods. A bibliometric analysis was applied in this study. Articles published by China in SCIE emergency medicine journals were included. They were analyzed in terms of publication outputs, document type, language of publication, journals, countries/territories, institutions, and collaboration patterns. Distributions of article titles and keywords were also studied to reveal research focuses and trends.

Results. During the period, a total of 1043 articles from China were published in SCIE emergency medicine journals. Seven documents types were found, and the journal article was the most frequently used. All articles were written in English. The Hong Kong Journal of Emergency Medicine is the most productive journal. The most productive institutes were Prince Wales Hospital, followed by Tuen Mun Hospital, Chinese University Hong Kong; USA dominated the collaborative countries. The ‘‘injury/injuries’’, ‘‘trauma’’, “acute”, “rat/rats”, “arrest”, ‘‘emergency’’, and ‘‘cardiopulmonary’’, ‘‘resuscitation’’ were the hot spots of emergency medicine research in China.

Conclusion. The results map emergency medicine (EM) development and research trends in China, and potentially guide Chinese EM physicians in evaluating and orienting their research.

Keywords

emergency medicine, china, bibliometric, science citation index expanded, research

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JU-FANG SHAO,XIANG-WEI YING,HUI-YUN SHEN. Chinese research status in emergency medicine journals: a bibliometric analysis based on Science Citation Index Expanded database. Signa Vitae. 2016. 11(1);103-120.

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Science Citation Index Expanded (SciSearch) Created as SCI in 1964, Science Citation Index Expanded now indexes over 9,200 of the world’s most impactful journals across 178 scientific disciplines. More than 53 million records and 1.18 billion cited references date back from 1900 to present.

Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition aims to evaluate a journal’s value from multiple perspectives including the journal impact factor, descriptive data about a journal’s open access content as well as contributing authors, and provide readers a transparent and publisher-neutral data & statistics information about the journal.

Chemical Abstracts Service Source Index The CAS Source Index (CASSI) Search Tool is an online resource that can quickly identify or confirm journal titles and abbreviations for publications indexed by CAS since 1907, including serial and non-serial scientific and technical publications.

Index Copernicus The Index Copernicus International (ICI) Journals database’s is an international indexation database of scientific journals. It covered international scientific journals which divided into general information, contents of individual issues, detailed bibliography (references) sections for every publication, as well as full texts of publications in the form of attached files (optional). For now, there are more than 58,000 scientific journals registered at ICI.

Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research The Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research (GFMER) is a non-profit organization established in 2002 and it works in close collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO). The overall objectives of the Foundation are to promote and develop health education and research programs.

Scopus: CiteScore 1.0 (2022) Scopus is Elsevier's abstract and citation database launched in 2004. Scopus covers nearly 36,377 titles (22,794 active titles and 13,583 Inactive titles) from approximately 11,678 publishers, of which 34,346 are peer-reviewed journals in top-level subject fields: life sciences, social sciences, physical sciences and health sciences.

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