Qiao Yuanyuan;Xu Changtai;Sun Yannan;Fan Xin
Metrological analysis of ophthalmology literature to determine the increasing law and development trend of the literature.Log in www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed and use"ophthalmology"to retrieval"from 1857/01/01 to 2010/12/31"literature volume,meanwhile retrieval a database in literature volume(amount of every five years for a time period),language distribution,chinese collected,document type distribution,journal distribution,related research content and so on,according to the theory of increasing law of the literature,analyses the data which was retrievaled.From 1857 to 2010,PubMed database included 111993 articles of ophthalmology literature,all the cumulative literature volume increasing year after year,the approximate linear equation(Y=3318.7X-7312,R2=0.8791).1857-2010 ophthalmology literature was dominated in English,followed by Japanese,Chinese,German,literature volume published in Chinese was ranked in the three(2.10%),platoon PubMed included Chinese and beginning in 1971,1991 years later increased dramatically.According to the database literature PubMed types,including Clinical Trial 6259 articles, Editorial 1279 articles,Letter 2552 articles,Meta-Analysis 133 articles,Practice Guideline 67 articles,Randomized Controlled Trial 3644 articles,Review 8202 articles;ophthalmology literature included according to Journal Groups are divided into clinical Core Journals 10912 articles,Dental Journals 142 articles,Nuring Journals 572 articles;84732 article was related with Humans,Animals related literatures 20449 articles.PubMed core journal in 23 kinds of ophthalmology included 54155 articles.The amount of research articles about ophthalmology shows ascendant trend,indicate that glaucoma is still a hot tissue,the influence of the main factors to ophthalmology literature growth is the subject development in the environmental conditions.