[Character research published in the Chinese Journal of Medical History]

Character research or figure studies is important content in Chinese Journal of Medical History - a pivotal platform for research on the history of Chinese medicine in China. A total of 893 papers on character research were published from 1947 (when the journal was launched) to 2024, accounting for 20.74% of the journal content. These papers on character research were distributed in the diverse sections of the journal, such as 'Characters', 'Masterpieces', 'Chinese Medical History', 'Short Pieces and Discussion', 'Textural Research', 'Forum and Contention' and 'History Discourses', showing the trend of periodic changes with time. The contents of these papers involved biographies, achievements or evaluations, characters relationships or comparative studies and character relics studies. This character research covered a variety of viewpoints, research methods, novel data and materials and even cross disciplines.