Abstract:

Objective: To analyze the characteristics of papers written by Chinese authors from Mainland and published in the journals in dermatology included by Science Citation Index during 2003-2012. Methods: According to Journal Citation Report (JCR) of Institute for Scientific Information, we searched papers with first authors from China mainland and published in the journals in dermatology included in the Science Citation Index (SCI) database from 2003 to 2012 using the Thomson Reuters Web of Science. The publication type, correspondence of authors and citation count of these papers were analyzed. Results: There was an increase trend in the number of papers written by authors from China mainland and published in the journals in dermatology indexed by SCI from 2003 to 2012, with the annual incremental rate being 39.92% for all papers and 26.10% for the papers excluding meeting abstracts and correction. Among these papers, original artides (43.0%，963/2237) were the most common publication type, followed by meeting abstracts (38.0%，851/2237) and letters (15.5%，347/2237). Proceeding papers, reviews and original articles showed relatively higher citation times and rate, while meeting abstracts showed the least citation . The proportion of the papers regarding basic researches was somewhat higher than that of clinical researches (11/20 vs. 9/20).  The Most of these papers were published in the journals ranked in the second (39.2%) and first (38.8%) quartiles by CR. The five most productive areas were Beijing, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Anhui, and Shaanxi. Conclusion: An Jincreasing number of papers written by authors from China Mainland have been published in the journals in dermatology included by Science Citation Index from 2003 to 2012, and most of these articles are published in highly influential journals, with the article type mainly being original articles and letters. 

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SCI, bibliometrics, dermatology