Objective　To explore the development of the research on professional thinking of clinical medicos in China with the purpose of revealing its bibliometric characteristics and rules. Methods　With medico and professional thinking taken as the subject terms

relevant literature published in January 2014 was retrieved from CNKI and Wanfang database in reliance on subject re-trieval strategy

and then

literature was screened after the enactment of inclusion and exclusion criteria. Finally

all pieces of the included literature were analyzed by bibliometric method. Results　Finally

53 papers were included in the paper

among which there were 30 (56.6%) articles published in the year 2007-2014

and priority was given to empirical research; Besides

the research topics were scat-tered

involving 29 (54.7%) articles of professional attitude

26(49.1%) articles of learning attitude

13 (24.5%) articles of political thought

16 (30.2%) articles of employment and employment

4 (7.5%) articles of medical ethics

12 (22.6%) articles of the idea of professional education

4 (7.5%) articles of the idea of professional

and 21 (39.6%) other topics. Conclusions　China hasn't developed a system for the research on the professional thinking of clinical medicos in terms of re-search contents

or elevated the analysis on research result to theoretical level.