[Analysis of authors of articles published in Chinese Journal of Ophthalmology from 1995 to 2004].

Objective: We aimed to analyze the authors, the organizations and regional distribution of these authors of Chinese Journal of Ophthalmology, and ascertain the core authors, core organizations and core regions.
Methods: Using quantitative analysis method, we analysed the authors, co-authors and the core authors of papers published between 1995 to 2004. Also, the distributions of districts and highly quantitative organization were determined statistically.
Results: There were 2143 articles published during the last ten years; 912 author had published only one paper, accounted for 70.59% of total first authors. There were 1853 articles with one or more co-authors, the cooperative rate and degree were 86.47% and 3.56, respectively. There were 290 papers with single author, which accounted for 13.53% of total papers. The number of papers from universities, institutes, affiliated hospitals and hospitals were 246 (11.48%), 176 (8.21%), 969 (45.22%) and 423 (19.74%), respectively. There were 82 core authors published 553 (25.81%) papers, while 20 highly-quantities organizations published 1016 (47.41%) papers. Core region was Beijing, which published 574 (26.78%) articles.
Conclusions: Authors of the Chinese Journal of Ophthalmology have a wide distribution and highly cooperative rate. There are a group of active and talented core authors, who have a great influence on this journal.