[Statistics analysis of the first authors and their institutions in Chinese Journal of Ophthalmology from 2002 to 2004].

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the first authors and their institutions in Chinese Journal of Ophthalmology from 2002 to 2004.

METHOD: All of the first authors and their institute issued in Chinese Journal of Ophthalmology from 2002 to 2004 were collected in the study, the data was statistically analyzed.

RESULTS: A total of 775 articles have been issued on the journal in the period of time. There were ten authors who issued more than 5 articles individually at total 79, which covers 10.19%. There were 20 institutes in which more then 10 papers were published as first author in each institute, covering 60.26% (total 467). As the first authors from Non-ophthalmology institute issued 25 articles, covering 3.23%.

CONCLUSIONS: The authors who published the most articles in the journal are XIAO Li-hua, XIE Li-xin and ZHAO Jia-liang. The institutes affiliated with the first authors that issued the most articles are Eye Research Center of Zhongshan University, Eye Research Center of Peking Union Hospital, Capital medical university and Shandong Eye institute; Non-ophthalmology institute affiliated with the first author are Central Laboratory of the first people's hospital, Shanghai Transportation University.