[Analysis on acupuncture and moxibustion literature in Medline database from 2000 to 2007]

To summarize and analyze literature about acupuncture and moxibustion embodied in Medline Database from 2000 to 2007, the articles in Medline PubMed Database were retrieved by different retrieval tactics on line, in combination with artificial statistical analysis on the literature data. Results indicate that among a total of 4 041 articles about acupuncture and moxibustion retrieved from Medline in the 8 years, 628 were published in Chinese and 3071 in English. These articles were involved in 836 journals, including 31 Chinese Journals. Eight hundred and forty-one articles were from China mainland, Beijing (176), Shanghai (136) and Tianjin (43) were the top 3 provinces and cities of literature numbers. It is showed that most acupuncture and moxibustion articles embodied in Medline are published in many foreign publications in English as main, but this situation has greatly changed after Zhongguo Zhenjiu and other journals were cited by Medline since 2006.