title: [Bibliometric analysis of bacterial quantitative proteomics in English literatures].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To analyze the worldwide advances on bacterial quantitative proteomics over the past fifteen years with bibliometric approach.
  
  
  METHODS
  Literature retrieval was conducted throughout the databases of Pubmed, Embase and Science citation index (SCI), using "bacterium" and "quantitative proteomics" as the key words. The deadline is July 2013. We sorted and analyzed these articles with Endnote X6 from the aspects of published year, the first author, name of journal, published institution, cited frequency and publication type.
  
  
  RESULTS
  932 English articles were included in our research after deleting the duplicates. The first article on bacterial quantitative proteomics was reported in 1999. The maximal publications were 163 related articles in 2012. Up till July 2013, authors from more than 23 countries and regions have published articles in this field. China ranks the fourth. The main publication type is original articles. The most frequently cited article is entitled with "Absolute quantification of proteins by LCMSE: a virtue of parallel MS acquisition" by Silva JC, Gorenstein MV, Li GZ, et al in Mol Cell Proteomics 2006. The most productive author is Smith RD from Biological Sciences Division, Pac. Northwest National Laboratory. The top journal publishing bacterial quantitative proteomics is Proteomics.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  More and more researchers pay attention to quantitative proteomics which will be widely used in bacteriology.
authors.forename: Xin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Danyang
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: She
authors.affiliation: Department of Respiratory Medicine, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China. Email: liuyn301@126.com.
authors.forename: Youning
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Rui
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Xiuzhen
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Di
authors.forename: Beibei
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Liang
authors.forename: Yue
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D001432:Bacteriology / Q000639:trends; D015706:Bibliometrics; D002681:China; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D040901:Proteomics; D039781:PubMed; D011642:Publications; D011643:Publishing