Objective To analyze the characteristics of the bibliometrics on anti-smoking practice and present status of research, providing reference for future progress of this movement.
Methods Published articles, from 1992 to 2009, on anti-smoking intervention practice collected in Full-text Database of CNKI, were bibliometrically analyzed and described with its number, distribution and characteristics. The present status and trend of anti-smoking practice were summarized.
Results A total of 259 articles were published in 71 domestic journals with scattering and fluctuating distribution, however the trend was increasing. The distribution of journal was concentrated relatively. 712 authors published 933 articles with collaboration degree as 3.60 and co-author rate as 83.01%. The first-authors, most of them were come from institution of health education, disease control center, patriotic hygiene committee, colleges, etc, distributed in 29 regions. 33 articles,(12.74%)were Research Fund supported. Of 251 key words,"smoking control","smoking","health education","smoking abstention" and "intervention" were the most frequent used. School students and their parents were the main subjects receiving intervention.
Conclusion Though antismoking practicing draws ever more social concern, however research on anti-smoking intervention were advanced with fluctuation; there are good collaboration among researchers; many exciting findings have been achieved; youth is the important subject. However, there are certain problems in anti-smoking intervention practice study still, for example:imbalance of the research among regions. Much more researches are urgently needed to putting in for further push forward this movement sound and steadily.
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