The research aimed to analyze the research tendency of mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan in obstetrics & gynecology category from 2003 to 2012 and to offer information foundation for further research.

A computerized literature search was carried out for articles in the field of obstetrics and gynecology from mainland China Hong Kong and Taiwan included by SCI with limited time from January 2003 to December 2012. The ISSN (print) was used to achieve journal research. The address search terms used were " China [ad] not Hong Kong [ad] not Taiwan [ad]" , "Hong Kong [ad]" , "Taiwan [ad]" . SPSS17.0 was used to achieve statistic analysis.

In the past decade, Chinese regions published 4 684 articles in the 75 obstetrics and gynecology journals, holding 4.1% of worldwide articles (4 684 /114 753), with 2 278 articles from mainland China, 644 from Hong Kong, 1 758 from Taiwan and 4 from Macau. The annual total number of articles from Chinese regions increased gradually from 2003 to 2012 (from 235 to 770). The average impact factor (IF) of articles published by Hong Kong ranked first(2.751), followed by mainland China (2.571) and Taiwan(2.337). A total number of 1 069 articles from three regions were published in the top 5 high-impact obstetrics and gynecology journals, with 557 articles from mainland China, 159 from Hong Kong, 353 from Taiwan. Fertility and Sterility could be the most poplar obstetrics and gynecology journal for authors in major Chinese regions.

The number of articles published in international journals by Chinese authors has been increasing annually. Higher quality articles are needed to be published in high impact factor journals in future. Fertility and sterility has been the hot topic in China.

Obstetrics and gynecology; Bibliometrics