title: [An analysis of articles published by academic groups in pediatrics in Chinese Journal of Pediatrics and their citations].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore academic significance and guiding function played by subspecialty groups of the Society of Pediatrics, Chinese Medical Association on Chinese pediatric clinical practice through a statistical analysis of the articles published by the subspecialty groups.
  
  
  METHODS
  Bibliometric methods were used to analyze the number of articles, article types, total citations, highly cited articles and the distribution of citing journals.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Totally 7 156 articles were published in Chinese Journal of Pediatrics from 1993 (31) to 2012 (51), of which 187 by subspecialty groups of pediatrics (2.6%), with a total citations of 11 985. Among them, 137 articles were cited with a citation rate of 73.3% and average citations for each article was 64.1. Articles classified as clinical guidelines had been totally cited for 10 900 times with average citations of 123.86 per article. The article on Neonatal hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy diagnosis and clinical index was cited 1 791 times ranked in highly cited literatures. All the top three cited literature periodicals were core journals of pediatrics, and 10 periodicals among the top 20 were in pediatrics and the rest in other medical fields.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The number of the articles published by the subspecialty groups of pediatrics was increasing year by year though the portion it in the total number of the articles in the journal was not large. However, the citation frequency of the articles by the subspecialty groups of pediatrics was high, making an obvious contribution to the total citations of Chinese Journal of Pediatrics. The total citation rate of clinical guideline articles and their average rate was higher than those of other articles published in this journal, which meant that this type of articles provided academic references with guiding significance for clinical practice of pediatrics and for other medical fields as well.
authors.affiliation: Library of Children's Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400014, China.
authors.forename: Qiurong
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Song
authors.affiliation: Library of Children's Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400014, China.
authors.forename: Yanping
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.affiliation: Library of Children's Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400014, China. Email: nlm99@qq.com.
authors.forename: Linping
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D015706:Bibliometrics; D002681:China; D010372:Pediatrics; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011643:Publishing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012196:Review Literature as Topic