Quantifying and classifying reports on corneal transplantation nearly 10 years in China
Qin Wang · Chongqing yixue · 2006
Objective To analyze the information of the current situation,the progress and existing problems about corneal transplantation research for recent 10 years in China.Methods To retrieve literatures about corneal transplantation research from 1994 to 2003 on Chinese Biomedical Literature Database(CBMDISC),carry out the statistical analysis about the thesis number,thesis era,thesis cooperation degree,core authors,publishing institutes, endemic distribution,periodical distribution and core periodic for domestic related thesis for recent 10 years by literature metrology.Results The number of thesis increased year by year since 1994 mainly in collaboration with many writers.But the thesis about corneal transplant research were mainly published in the core periodicals of ophthalmology such as Chinese Ophthalmic Research,Chinese Journal of Ocular Trauma and Occupational Eye,Chinese Journal of Practical Ophthalmology,Chinese Journal of Ophthalmology.The assays were published mainly by the core institutes like Zhongshan Medical University,etc.Those institutes were mainly composed of Medical Schools and special research institutes of ophthalmology which were mostly located in east-southern cities along the coast or national central cities such as Guangdong,Shandong,Beijing.Conclusion Corneal transplantation operation startes recently in our country, but it develops very fast,especially around 2002.It is not ideal for the western regions such as Tibet,Qinghai and Guizhou to do the research and development about the project because of the limitation of basic condition and talented man.It shows disparate development among different regions.