Objective: To investigate the authors, the institution and endemic distribution of these authors of Chinese Journal of Ophthalmology, and understand the current situation and problems in the field of Ophthalmology.
Methods: Using the bibliometrics methods, we analyzed the authors, the co-authors and the core authors of papers published between 2000 to 2009. The distribution of institution and region and highly quantitative organization were also analyzed.
Results: The 2495 papers were published by the Journal within 10 years. 1091 authors (72.68% of total first authors) published only one paper. There were 705 (28.26%) papers from 105 (7.00%) core authors. There were 2238 papers with one or more co-authors, the cooperative rate and degree were 89.70% and 3.91, respectively. 257 papers were written by single author, which accounted for 10.30% of total papers. According to the distribution of Province, Beijing was the first of rank with 726 (29.10%) papers, the second was Guangdong Province by 335 (13.43%) papers, Shanghai was the third with 257 (10.30%) papers. The number of papers from affiliated hospital, provincial or municipal hospitals, county hospitals, military hospitals were 1853 (74.27%), 227 (9.10%), 17 (0.68%) and 164 (6.57%), respectively. 1391 (55.75%) papers were from 16 high-productivity institutes.
Conclusions: Authors of the Chinese Journal of Ophthalmology are from widely distributed area and have a highly cooperative rate, but the distribution was disproportion. The core authors are active and talented, who have a great influence on this journal. The highly-productivity Province are Beijing, Guangdong and Shanghai, even the authors were from widely distributed area.