title: [Bibliometric analysis of the features of Journal of First Military Medical University in 21-24 volumes].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To conduct a bibliometric evaluation of Journal of First Military Medical University.
  
  
  METHODS
  With bibliometric method, a survey was carried out to analyze the articles, authors, rate of collaboration, publication type of citation, and publication stagnation in 21st-24th volumes.
  
  
  RESULTS
  There were totally 1218 treatises in the 1860 articles published in the 4 volumes. Most of the authors were from institutes with good research strength, and 44 of them were core authors with at least 4 previous publications. The rate of collaboration in publication was 51.7% and 53.4% of the papers identified grants from various foundations or institutes. The average number of citation in a treatise was 9.93 and the publication stagnation averaged 196.1 days.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The articles in this journal possess originality and are timely published. The authors show good ability for necessary information processing and contribute in various degrees to the development of the disciplines in medicine.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Statistics, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, China. Aslhs@fimmu.com
authors.forename: Sheng-li
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: An
authors.forename: Shuang
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Huang
mesh_terms: D015706:Bibliometrics; D002681:China; D010506:Periodicals as Topic