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fields. CiteSpace serves as a valuable scientific research tool for the studies of the above fields (Chen, 2004; Chen,
2006; Chen et al., 2010; Chen, 2012; Chen and Leydesdorff, 2013; Chen et al., 2014).
1 Results and Analysis
1.1 Publication amount analysis
According to the retrieving results in the Web of Science and CNKI, we analyzed the number of published
genomics related articles (from 1985 to 2016) and made a list of them (Table 1).
Table 1 The number of published periodical articles (piece)
Year
Chinese literature
Foreign literature
1985
0
0
1986
0
0
1987
0
0
1988
0
1
1989
0
1
1990
0
2
1991
0
7
1992
0
7
1993
0
10
1994
0
9
1995
0
23
1996
0
45
1997
6
101
1998
19
199
1999
49
348
2000
135
655
2001
292
931
2002
325
1280
2003
434
1494
2004
389
1886
2005
331
2139
2006
459
2216
2007
490
2343
2008
575
2570
2009
571
2633
2010
352
2905
2011
483
3051
2012
349
3343
2013
956
3498
2014
1132
3655
2015
1037
3982
2016
128
1185
Total
8512
40519
The number of published genomics related articles is increasing year by year (Figure 1). It reaches almost as high
as 4000 pieces in 2015, which indicates that more and more researchers and researching institutes abroad have
attached great importance to genomic studies and have obtained abundant research achievement. Compared with
that, the number of published articles in China shows an upward trend in fluctuation since 1997. Moreover, there
is sudden increase from 2013 to 2015, which illustrates that our country has increased the investment in genomics
related fields in recent years, and has made great progress.
