[Analysis of authors of articles published in Chinese Journal of Ophthalmology from 1995 to 2004].
OBJECTIVE
We aimed to analyze the authors, the organizations and regional distribution of these authors of Chinese Journal of Ophthalmology, and ascertain the core authors, core organizations and core regions.


METHODS
Using quantitative analysis method, we analysed the authors, co-authors and the core authors of papers published between 1995 to 2004. Also, the distributions of districts and highly quantitative organization were determined statistically.


RESULTS
There were 2143 articles published during the last ten years; 912 author had published only one paper, accounted for 70.59% of total first authors. There were 1853 articles with one or more co-authors, the cooperative rate and degree were 86.47% and 3.56, respectively. There were 290 papers with single author, which accounted for 13.53% of total papers. The number of papers from universities, institutes, affiliated hospitals and hospitals were 246 (11.48%), 176 (8.21%), 969 (45.22%) and 423 (19.74%), respectively. There were 82 core authors published 553 (25.81%) papers, while 20 highly-quantities organizations published 1016 (47.41%) papers. Core region was Beijing, which published 574 (26.78%) articles.


CONCLUSIONS
Authors of the Chinese Journal of Ophthalmology have a wide distribution and highly cooperative rate. There are a group of active and talented core authors, who have a great influence on this journal.
Yu
Guang
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Library of Second Hospital, China Medical University, Shenyang 110004, China. yug@cmu2h.org
Yang
Hua
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Zhao
Yue-yang
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D001319:Authorship; D015706:Bibliometrics; D002681:China; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D009885:Ophthalmology; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000266:history / Q000706:statistics & numerical data* / Q000639:trends