Table 1.
Characteristics of the extracted publications from 2004 to 2017.
| Year | TP | TLCS | TGCS | AU | AU/TP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 27 | 497 | 3121 | 188 | 6.96 |
| 2005 | 40 | 859 | 6672 | 191 | 5.03 |
| 2006 | 55 | 1487 | 8147 | 255 | 4.64 |
| 2007 | 110 | 1795 | 11,503 | 493 | 4.61 |
| 2008 | 203 | 4763 | 22,751 | 861 | 4.39 |
| 2009 | 278 | 4378 | 24,158 | 1264 | 4.53 |
| 2010 | 366 | 3334 | 24,546 | 1782 | 4.84 |
| 2011 | 553 | 3451 | 34,728 | 2672 | 4.82 |
| 2012 | 610 | 3799 | 34,475 | 3450 | 5.59 |
| 2013 | 707 | 2575 | 25,076 | 3439 | 5.25 |
| 2014 | 794 | 2623 | 22,928 | 4343 | 5.34 |
| 2015 | 941 | 1871 | 17,501 | 5212 | 5.46 |
| 2016 | 1127 | 891 | 11,656 | 6190 | 5.43 |
| 2017 | 1276 | 203 | 3866 | 7122 | 5.55 |
Note: TP means total number of publications, AU refers author numbers, AU/TP average author numbers per publication, TLCS total local citation score (i.e., TLCS: the number of cited times in the downloaded publication set) (TLCS and TGCS are calculated with Histcite), TGCS total global citation score (i.e., TGCS: the number of cited times in the whole Web of Science).