title: [Statistical analysis of articles, citations and authors in Chinese Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery from 2002 to 2004].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To study the characteristics of of articles, citations and authors in Chinese Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery(CJGS).
  
  
  METHODS
  The data of articles,citations and authors of CJCS from 2002 to 2004 were collected and analyzed in terms of bibliometric parameters.
  
  
  RESULTS
  There were 546 papers in CJCS during the past 3 years and project-funded papers accounted for 14.3%. The average number of articles per issue was 34; the average number of article per page was 0.44; the average publishing cycle of the articles was 7.52 months. The authors came from 28 provinces and Hong Kong SAR; the coauthor rate was 88.88%; the cooperation rate was 4.18. The papers with citation accounted for 92% and 93.78% of the citations were from journals. The Prices indicator was 60.1%.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Chinese Journal Gastrointestinal Surgery is a high quality academic journal with strong influence, and promotes the development and construction of gastrointestinal surgery in China.
authors.affiliation: Depatment of Preventive Medicine, Qingdao University Medical College, Qingdao 266021, China.
authors.forename: Xiao-bin
authors.initials: XB
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Hong-song
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Teng
mesh_terms: D015706:Bibliometrics; D002681:China; D005762:Gastroenterology; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011643:Publishing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*