Analysis of traditional Chinese medicine graduate students research information acquisition behavior
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The objective of this study was to investigate the research information acquisition channels of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) graduate students and clarify the direction for improvement in laboratory research education. A total of 421 TCM graduates enrolled from September 2016 to September 2023 were surveyed using electronic questionnaires, with 164 valid responses collected. Data from all questionnaires were analyzed using frequency (percentage) [n (%)] statistics. Results of the survey revealed that TCM postgraduates primarily used Sci-Hub (65.24%) to download literature and utilized PubMed (93.29%) for literature search. They predominantly read literature on computers (96.95%) and focused on professional literature (98.78%). Moreover, the most followed research-oriented public accounts by TCM postgraduates were Jie-Luo-Xuan, Ding-Xiang Series, Sheng-Wu-Xue-Ba, Shi-Yan-Wan-Shi-Wu, BioArt and Xiao-Zhang-Liao-Ke-Yan. Based on the survey results, it is recommended that laboratory research education for TCM graduates should emphasize cultivating graduates' proficiency in commonly used online search and reading tools in scientific research, while also focusing on analyzing the paper design and research methodologies in the relevant research fields.
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