Table 2

Total number of Schistosoma-specific articles published from 1990–1999 in the 10 leading Chinese journals publishing original schistosomiasis research articles in China, by major research topic

Journal
Total articles
New tools
Epidemiology
Control
Other research








Diagnostics
Drugs
Vaccines

Clinical issues
Chemotherapy
Health education
Water supply and sanitation
Integrated control


Chinese Journal of Schistosomiasis Control
1576
183
(11.6%)
152
(9.6%)
63
(4.0%)
502
(31.9%)
39
(2.5%)
146
(9.3%)
35
(2.2%)
17
(1.1%)
78
(4.9%)
361
(22.9%)
Journal of Tropical Diseases and Parasitology
520
56
(10.8%)
45
(8.6%)
28
(5.4%)
203
(39.0%)
14
(2.7%)
39
(7.5%)
16
(3.1%)
50
(9.6%)
38
(7.3%)
31
(6.0%)
Chinese Journal of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases
320
29
(9.1%)
41
(12.8%)
3
(0.9%)
48
(15.0%)
7
(2.1%)
4
(1.3%)
3
(0.9%)
3
(0.9%)
4
(1.3%)
178
(55.6%)
Parasitoses and Infectious Diseases
292
51
(17.5%)
12
(4.1%)
3
(1.0%)
132
(45.2%)
18
(6.2%)
7
(2.4%)
16
(5.5%)
0
24
(8.2%)
29
(9.9%)
Journal of Pathogen Biology
166
15
(9.0%)
29
(17.5%)
17
(10.2%)
23
(13.9%)
4
(2.4%)
8
(4.8%)
3
(1.8%)
6
(3.6%)
4
(2.4%)
57
(34.3%)
Chinese Journal of Zoonoses
114
15
(13.1%)
14
(12.2%)
27
(23.7%)
2
(1.8%)
13
(11.4%)
3
(2.6%)
2
(1.8%)
2
(1.8%)
1
(0.9%)
35
(30.7%)
Journal of Public Health and Preventive Medicine
101
17
(16.8%)
11
(10.9%)
2
(2.0%)
23
(22.8%)
17
(16.8%)
6
(5.9%)
4
(4.0%)
2
(2.0%)
10
(9.9%)
9
(8.9%)
Practical Preventive Medicine
97
16
(16.5%)
7
(7.2%)
3
(3.1%)
22
(22.7%)
10
(10.3%)
10
(10.3%)
5
(5.2%)
2
(2.1%)
11
(11.3%)
11
(11.3%)
International Journal of Medical Parasitic Diseases
54
3
(5.6%)
4
(7.4%)
22
(40.7%)
2
(3.7%)
0
1
(1.9%)
0
0
5
(9.2%)
17
(31.5%)
China Tropical Medicine
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.

Total
3240
385
(11.9%)
315
(9.7%)
168
(5.2%)
957
(29.5%)
122
(3.8%)
224
(6.9%)
84
(2.6%)
82
(2.5%)
175
(5.4%)
728
(22.4%)

n.a. not applicable/not available

Liu et al. Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2008 5:19   doi:10.1186/1742-7622-5-19