摘要目的 分析《中华老年医学杂志》2008 2012年刊载论文的引文情况,评价该杂志作者掌握和利用科技文献的规律和特点. 方法 利用万方数据库对杂志2008-2012年所载论文进行检索,应用文献计量学和引文分析法,对所载论文引文量、引文语种、引文年代分布和自引率等进行分析,并计算文献的半衰期和普赖斯指数. 结果 该刊2008 2012年共1567篇,其中附有参考文献的论文1479篇,引文率为94.4％.共有引用文献16054条,篇均引文数为10.25条/篇.该刊引文语种以英文为主,引文数占引文总数的73.33％(11772/16054),中文引文数占引文总数的26.67％(4281/16054),仅1条为日语语种的引文.2008-2012年该刊作者自引文献193条,作者自引率为1.20％;期刊白引引文839条,期刊自引率为5.23％.该刊引文文献的半衰期为4.27年,普赖斯指数为45.71％. 结论 该刊作者引用文献范围广泛,在传播和交流老年医学领域最新信息和研究成果方面发挥了重要作用;但其篇均引文量、引用文献的时效性、新颖性等仍有待进一步提高和完善.

abstractsObjective To analyze the citation characteristics of literatures in Chinese Journal of Geriatrics published from 2008 to 2012.Methods According to the information from Wanfang database,articles in Chinese Journal of Geriatrics published from 2008 to 2012 were surveyed.The quantity,type of languages and the self-cited rate,etc were analyzed,and the Price's index,half life of literatures were calculated.Results Of the 1567 papers published in the journal from 2008 to 2012,1479 papers cited 16054 literatures,with a citation rate of 94.4％.The average number of citations in each paper was 10.25.The major language of citation was English (73.33％),followed by Chinese (26.67％),and only one citation was in Japanese.The self cited rates of author and periodical were 1.20％ and 5.23％,respectively.The Price's index was 45.71％ and the half-life of literatures was 4.27 years.Conclusions The authors of Chinese Journal of Geriatrics cite a wide range of literature,and the journal plays an important role in publicizing research achievements of geriatric medicine.However,the average number of citations in each paper,timeliness and novelty of cited literatures,diversity of citation languages need further improving.