Research on the Growth Law of Traditional Chinese Medicine Scientific Literature
中医药科技文献增长规律研究

This paper aimed to study the growth law of traditional Chinese medicine(TCM) scientific literature.Curvilinear regression analysis is used to analyze data from TCM journals and published papers of four TCM colleges.The result of regression hypothesis test showed that the exponential model is appropriate.It is concluded that the growth of data from TCM journals and published papers were accorded with the exponential growth in Price law.The growth rate b and cumulative total of published papers are proposed as reference indexes to evaluate the level of TCM scientific research.