Scientific publications in andrology journals from Chinese authors in various parts of East Asia: a 10-year survey of the literature

• 来源期刊: 亚洲男性学杂志（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2014,（6）
• 页码范围: 934-936
• 页数: 3页
• 语种: 中文
• DOI: 10.4103/1008-682X.136448

摘要

Dear Editor, Diseases of the genitourinary system were the fifth most common disease of inpatients in Chinese city hospitals in 2011 (6.0％).1 Andrology in China has grown rapidly within the last decade,however,little is known about the scientific publications by Chinese authors in andrology.We,therefore,sought to reveal the contributions of Chinese authors in three major regions of China-the Mainland (ML),Taiwan (TW),and Hong Kong (HK)-to the research in the fields of andrology. We examined a total of eight journals related to andrology that were selected from Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) and other resources.Among the five journals from the "andrology systems" category of SCIE subjects by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI),four containing "Asian Journal of Andrology (AJA),Andrologia,Systems Biology in Reproductive Medicine,and Andrology" were included while "Revista Internacional de Andrología" was excluded from this study because of its non-English language.2 In that "Archives of Andrology" was renamed "Systems Biology in Reproductive Medicine" in 2008 and"InternationalJournal of Andrology" was merged with "Journal of Andrology" to form "Andrology" in 2013,3 the three magazines were also included in our study.Besides,"International Journal of Impotence Research" was added for counting after manual searching and expert consultation.We conducted a literature search in the PubMed database on February 9,2014 to seek articles published in the eight journals from ML,TW,and HK during January 2004 and December 2013.4 The International Standard Serial Number (print) of the journals and the first author's affiliations containing TW (ad),HK (ad),and China (ad) NOT TW (ad) NOT HK (ad) were applied to perform this search.