Objective
To investigate the characteristics of the papers published on Journal of Environmental and Occupational Medicine (JEOM) from 2012 to 2016, then summarize underlying rules, in order to provide guidance for the future development of JEOM.
Methods
The citation data of all papers published on JEOM during the 5 years were collected from CNKI database. The papers with the citation frequency ≥ 1 were enrolled and outputted. The items such as the number of the papers enrolled, overall citation frequency, fu nd program, column, first author and institute were analyzed. In accordance with the publication data, the data of errors were deleted.
Results
From 2012 to 2016, 1 185 papers were published on JEOM, of which, 942 papers were cited with a citation rate of 79.49%. The overall citation frequency was 4 080. The average citation frequency of each paper was 3.44. The average citation frequencies of papers with or without funding were 3.50 and 3.36 respectively. The citation frequencies in columns of original paper, special column, monograph, and review were 4.27, 2.70, 7.83, and 4.91, respectively. In the top 10 institutes with the largest number of papers, Xinjiang Medical University had the highest overall citation frequency rate (90.00%). Likewise, Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Pudong District of Shanghai possessed the highest average citation frequency (5.45).
Conclusion
The quality of the papers published on JEOM is considerably improved from 2012 to 2016. The citation frequency does not vary with or without funding. The papers with highest average citation frequency are in columns of monograph.
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