[Analysis of citations referenced in articles published in Chinese Journal of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine from 2001 to 2004].
OBJECTIVE
To investigate the referential rule and the informative absorbing capacity of the Chinese Journal of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine (CJITWM), and analyze the characteristics of literature requirement of scientists working in integrated Chinese and Western medicine (ICWM) field offering suggestions on literary utilization.


METHODS
Citation analysis was used to analyze the references cited in 1825 articles published in CJIM from 2001 to 2004 according to their time sequence of publishing.


RESULTS
The citation rate was 53.64%, and 9.51% citations per article. Most of the citations were mainly cited from journals (85.38%) and books (13.4%). The Price Index was 49.22%, and the self-citation rate for author and periodical were 3.63% and 7.77% respectively.


CONCLUSIONS
CJITWM is a highly authorized and representative professional academic periodical in the field of ICWM. The citations are mainly cited from periodicals written in Chinese or English, they are of good novelty and quality, but the citation rate should be further improved.
Zhang
Jing-hai
JH
Library of The Second Hospital Affiliated to China Medical University, Shenyang. zhangjh@cmu2h.com
Liang
Li
L
D015706:Bibliometrics; D002681:China; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*