The analysis of the thesis, authors, citation of Researches in Medical Education in 2010

Objective For providing a reference of the publishing in future, this paper explores the characteristics and laws of Researches in Medical Education by analyzing the published articles, authors and citation statistic situation of it. Methods With statistical method of bibliometric, this paper analyzes 615, published in the journal in 2010 in three aspects of papers, authors and quotations. Specific indicators include the published paper amount, fund projects, columns, co-authors, distribution of authors, citing quantity, citing types, citing language and the comparative analysis of indicators. Results The number of paper published in this journal in 2010 is 615. Total number of pages is 1728. The average pages of paper is 2.18. Article density is 0.36 article / page. Teaching reform and clinical teaching as the main sections account for 19.51% and 16.75% in the published paper amount. The total number of authors is 2084. No author and sole author paper is 87, co-author papers is 528, co-author rate is 85.85%. Cooperation degree is 3.39 person / article. The number of citations is 4331. The average number of citations in each article is 7.04, citation rate is 99.51%. Conclusion This journal is informative, focused, rich in column, and having a significant impact on the country, but there are some shortages such as the slightly lower number of citation and less foreign citation. Key words: Researches in Medical Education;  Bibliometric;  Published articles;  Author;  Citation