Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China.
Am J Chin Med. 2011;39(4):639-49. doi: 10.1142/S0192415X11009081.
Practitioners and researchers from China, the largest user of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), have been publishing an increasing number of scientific articles in world-famous CAM journals in recent years. However, the status of CAM research in the three major regions of China, the Mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong has, until now, not been reported. In this study, we compared articles from these three regions published in international CAM journals from 2000 to 2009 using PubMed database and the Journal Citation Reports. The study results showed that the number of published articles from Mainland China increased significantly from 2000 to 2009, particularly since 2005. Meanwhile, the number of published articles from Taiwan also increased, whereas those from Hong Kong remained steady. Clinical trials and randomized controlled trials from Chinese authors both took a small percentage of the total. The impact factors of the journals in which these articles were published suggested similar academic levels whereas the average number of citation of articles from the Mainland was less than those from the other two regions. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, American Journal of Chinese Medicine, Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine and Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine were the most popular journals for Chinese authors.
来自最大的补充和替代医学（CAM）使用者中国的从业者和研究人员近年来一直在世界著名的 CAM 期刊上发表越来越多的科学文章。然而，直到现在，中国三大地区（中国大陆、台湾和香港）的 CAM 研究状况尚未报道。在这项研究中，我们使用 PubMed 数据库和期刊引文报告比较了 2000 年至 2009 年这三个地区在国际 CAM 期刊上发表的文章。研究结果表明，中国大陆发表的文章数量从 2000 年到 2009 年显著增加，特别是 2005 年以来。与此同时，台湾发表的文章数量也有所增加，而香港则保持稳定。中国作者的临床试验和随机对照试验仅占总数的一小部分。这些文章发表的期刊的影响因素表明学术水平相似，而中国大陆文章的平均引用次数少于其他两个地区。《民族药理学杂志》、《美国中医杂志》、《替代与补充医学杂志》和《循证补充与替代医学杂志》是中国作者最受欢迎的期刊。
