[Statistics of internationally-issued English articles on ophthalmology by mainland Chinese authors during the past 6 years].
OBJECTIVE
To understand and to analyze the overall situation of ophthalmic research articles issued in English internationally by mainland Chinese authors during the past 6 years.


METHODS
Using relevant retrieval words to search the articles from the PubMed, the largest database in biology and medical science in the world, and to conduct a statistical analysis.


RESULTS
Three hundred and ninety two English ophthalmological articles by mainland Chinese researchers as the first author or first organization were published in 134 periodicals. Most of these organizations were medical universities (as well as their affiliated hospitals) and China Academy of Science. There were 23 journals which published more than 4 articles and there were 25 organizations issued more than 4 articles.


CONCLUSIONS
During the past 6 years, there was a significant increase in the number of articles issued internationally by mainland Chinese authors, indicating an enormous progress in the field of ophthalmic research in mainland of China.
Zou
Feng
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Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510060, China.
Xu
Jie-na
JN
Zhang
Yan-li
YL
Yang
Liu
L
Wu
Kai-li
KL
D015706:Bibliometrics; D002681:China; D009885:Ophthalmology; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D039781:PubMed; D011643:Publishing