Chinese Journal of Medical Education ›› 2022, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (10): 916-919.DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn115259-20220221-00589

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Bibliometric analysis of Chinese doctoral dissertations in anesthesiology

Liang Jianfen, Hei Ziqing, Li Xiang   

  1. Department of Anesthesiology, The Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510630, China
  • Received:2022-02-21 Online:2022-10-01 Published:2022-09-29
  • Contact: Li Xiang, Email: lixiang27@mail.sysu.edu.cn

Abstract: Objective To analyze the characteristics and research topics of Chinese doctoral dissertations of anesthesiology to offer a reference for doctoral training in anesthesiology. Methods Bibliometric analysis was used to retrieve CNKI and Wanfang Database for the doctoral dissertations of anesthesiology from 1988 to 2020 and to record the basic situation of each paper. VOS viewer was used to extract and to analyze the high-frequency keywords of these papers. Results There were 1 073 Chinese doctoral dissertations of anesthesiology from 46 colleges, and they were retrieved with 62.5% (671/1 073) papers from top 10 universities. There were 314 advisers in total. More than half of these papers were never cited. The dissertations were clustered into 5 main topics: pain, lung injury, neurocognitive function changes, ischemia-reperfusion injury, and the mechanism of intravenous anesthetics. Conclusions The universities and advisers of Chinese doctoral dissertations of anesthesiology were relatively convergent and the quality of the dissertations need improving. There have been several main topics of research, but the breadth and depth of doctoral training in anesthesiology can be further expanded.

Key words: Anesthesiology, Doctoral candidate, Dissertation, Bibliometric analysis

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