Abstract: Objective：To investigate the academic level and influence of the Chinese Journal of Digestive Surgery from the point of articles published and the authors.
Methods：The articles and authors of Chinese Journal of Digestive Surgery from 2002 to 2012 were retrieved from the Wanfang database and the China National Knowledge Internet database. The full texts were browsed and saved, and then the data were input to Excel for bibliometric analysis.
Results：There were 1917 articles were published in the Chinese Journal of Digestive Surgery during the past 11 years, and the average number of articles per issue was 29.05. The rate of articles with funded projects was 30.62%, and the citation rate was 58.52%. Authors were from 32 provinces, municipalites and Hong Kong. The numbers of articles contributed by authors from Chongqing, Beijing and Shanghai ranked top 3, which were 446(23.27%), 240(12.52%) and 203(10.59%), and followed by authors from Sichuan, Jiangshu and Guandong. The number of articles from affiliated hospitals of Medical Schools was 1382(72.09%). The cooperation rate was 4.37, and the coauthor rate was 90.03%.
Conclusions Chinese Journal of Digestive Surgery is an academic journal with high quality and strong influence. The distribution of authors of the Chinese Journal of Digestive Surgery is wide, and the cooperative rate of authors is high, while the distribution of authors is disproportionate.