ABSTRACT
Objective To analyze the research direction of military medical literature published in Chinese and foreign languages.Methods Search the military medical literature through subject cat egory and subject words from CNKI and PubMed database.Results Total number of 10 630 articles were found.384 articles with no information of the author and mainly related to the introduction and information.The remaining 10 246 articles were included as the basis for the analysis of Chinese literature.A total of 22 847 foreign literatures were searched.Conclusions From the analysis of research papers published at home and abroad,both the authors and the contents of the research institutions varies a lot.Foreign research paid more attention to military medical trauma,while focus more on disease occurred in the army and logistic support guarantee in China.Three Military Medical University Affiliated Hospitals and the Military Hospital are the main force in military medical research in China.However,the domestic military hospitals,such as Xijing Hospital and Changhai Hospital published most of their high quality papers in abroad,which may be affected to the mechanism of rewards and punishment of domestic institutions.