title: A bibliometric analysis of malaria research in China during 2004-2014.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  China has made great progress in malaria prevention and control, but there has been no research to provide a macroscopic overview of malaria research in China. This bibliometric analysis was conducted from international databases to explore the characteristics of malaria investigations in China.
  
  
  METHODS
  Published scientific papers about malaria were retrieved from China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), Wanfang database, Cqvip and PubMed during 2004-2014. Year of publication, first-author affiliation, journal name and keywords were extracted with the Bibliographic Items Co-occurrence Matrix Builder (BICOMB). High-frequency keywords were selected to construct the co-word matrix and divided into eight categories. Sub-networks were utilized to analyse the complex knowledge structures.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In recent ten years, a total of 5,126 entries were included. The number of papers on malaria started to increase since 2010. The papers published by top 12 Chinese journals in the field of malaria accounted for 32.98% in overall articles. Most of the studies were conducted by the researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCs). The words "malaria", "imported malaria", "falciparum malaria", "vivax malaria" and "malaria surveillance" were the centers of knowledge structures.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Chinese studies on malaria mainly focus on the epidemiology and biomedical fields, this study offers a systematic evaluation on the output of malaria studies and the elimination of malaria in China.
authors.affiliation: School of Medicine and Health Management, Tongji Medical College, Hua Zhong University of Science and Technology, No.13 of Hangkong Road, Qiaokou District, Wuhan, Hubei Province, 430030, China. 442064570@qq.com.
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authors.lastname: Fu
authors.affiliation: Bureau of Disease Prevention and Control of the National Health and Family Planning Commission of the People's Republic of China, Beijing, China. 1139330021@qq.com.
authors.forename: Tao
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authors.lastname: Hu
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health, Wuhan University School of Medicine, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. 1025630198@qq.com.
authors.forename: Jingyi
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authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: School of Medicine and Health Management, Tongji Medical College, Hua Zhong University of Science and Technology, No.13 of Hangkong Road, Qiaokou District, Wuhan, Hubei Province, 430030, China. 857801173@qq.com.
authors.forename: Da
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Feng
authors.affiliation: School of Medicine and Health Management, Tongji Medical College, Hua Zhong University of Science and Technology, No.13 of Hangkong Road, Qiaokou District, Wuhan, Hubei Province, 430030, China. 694029691@qq.com.
authors.forename: Haiqing
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Fang
authors.affiliation: School of Medicine and Health Management, Tongji Medical College, Hua Zhong University of Science and Technology, No.13 of Hangkong Road, Qiaokou District, Wuhan, Hubei Province, 430030, China. wangmanli1237@hust.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Manli
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: School of Medicine and Health Management, Tongji Medical College, Hua Zhong University of Science and Technology, No.13 of Hangkong Road, Qiaokou District, Wuhan, Hubei Province, 430030, China. 1014055682@qq.com.
authors.forename: Shangfeng
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authors.lastname: Tang
authors.affiliation: School of Medicine and Health Management, Tongji Medical College, Hua Zhong University of Science and Technology, No.13 of Hangkong Road, Qiaokou District, Wuhan, Hubei Province, 430030, China. 151672440@qq.com.
authors.forename: Fang
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Yuan
authors.affiliation: School of Medicine and Health Management, Tongji Medical College, Hua Zhong University of Science and Technology, No.13 of Hangkong Road, Qiaokou District, Wuhan, Hubei Province, 430030, China. zcfeng@hust.edu.cn.
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mesh_terms: D015706:Bibliometrics; D002681:China; D008288:Malaria / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000469:parasitology*