Statistical analysis of articles,citations and authors for the Chinese Journal of Digestion from 2004 to 2006

Objective To study the characteristics of articles,citations and authors in Chinese Journal of Digestion(Chin J Dig).Methods The data about articles,citations and authors of Chin J Dig from 2004 to 2006 were collected and analyzed in terms of bibliometric parameters.Results There were 1079 papers published in Chin J Dig during 3 years period and papers with funded projects were accoun- ted for 19.3%.The average number of articles per issue was 30.The average number of article per page was 0.45.The average publishing cycle of the articles was 9.0 months.The authors were from 23 main- land provinces.92.0%of articles had multiple authors.The cooperation rate was 4.38.The papers were eitated 83.6%,and 96.40%of all the citations were from other journals.The Price's indicator was 65.1%.The half-citing life of literatures Chinese and English were 3.75 and 3.38,respectively.Conclu- sions Chin J Dig is a high quality journal for academic medicine.It has strong influence in science of digestive diseases in China.