Measuring the contributions of Chinese scholars to the research field of systems biology from 2005 to 2013
Measuring the contributions of Chinese scholars to the research field of systems biology from 2005 to 2013
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DOI：
10.1007/s11192-016-2213-x
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发表时间：
2017-01
期刊：
影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Y. Zou;M. Laubichler
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作者：
Y. Zou;M. Laubichler
系统生物学是生物学的一个新领域，对农业，医学和可持续发展具有重大意义。本文通过对9000多篇系统生物学论文的元数据分析，探讨了中国作者对系统生物学的贡献。我们的大数据方法包括科学计量分析，GIS分析，共词网络分析和比较分析。到2013年，中国已成为系统生物学出版物数量第二的国家。与之前对中国科学的研究类似，我们发现中国的研究力量分布不均衡，有利于大城市和沿海城市。总体而言，75%的系统生物学文章由大学学者发表，15%由中国科学院机构的学者发表，9%来自其他机构。许多中国学者的研究主题与美国、日本和德国的相似，但一个显著的区别是，中国传统医学是中国系统生物学家的重要课题。25%的中国系统生物学家与国外科学家合作，这表明他们利用了开放政策。从2011-2013年来看，中国学者发表的期刊的平均影响因子普遍低于美国同行，但趋势表明影响力逐渐增加。
Systems biology is a new field of biology that has great implications for agriculture, medicine, and sustainability. In this article we explore the contributions of Chinese authors to systems biology through analysis of the metadata of more than 9000 articles on systems biology. Our big-data approach includes scientometric analysis, GIS analysis, co-word network analysis, and comparative analysis. By 2013 China has become second in the number of publications on systems biology. Similar to previous studies on Chinese science, we find an unequal distribution of research power in China, favoring big cities and coastal cities. Overall, 75% of the articles in systems biology were published by scholars from universities, 15% by scholars from the Chinese of Academy of Sciences institutions, and 9% from other institutions. Many Chinese scholars’ research topics are similar to those in the US, Japan, and Germany, but one salient difference is that traditional Chinese medicine is an important topic among Chinese systems biologists. 25% of Chinese systems biologists cooperate with scientists abroad, suggesting that they take advantage of the opening-up policy. From the year 2011–2013, the average impact factor of the journals that Chinese scholars publish in is generally lower than that of their counterparts in the US, but the trend points to a gradual increase in impact.