Starting Year of Indexing and Number of Articles in the 54 Serials in the Field of “Toyo-Igaku” (Oriental Medicine) indexed in JMEDCINE

Abstract

For its 1993 activity, the Data base Subcommittee, Editorial Committee, the Japan Society for Oriental Medicine (JSOM) made a survey of: (1) the starting year of publication; (2) the starting year of indexing; and (3) the number of articles in the 54 serials indexed in JMEDICINE. (The names, pablication Codes, etc are reported in the Nihon Toyo Igaku Zasshi, 45: 571-575, 1993, as the 1992 activity of the Subcommittee's A general picture of the period covered and the number of articles indexed in JMEDICINE were revealed in the survey. In view of the recent improvement in the accessibility to JMEDICINE, further use of it in research and clinical work is recommended.