Objective To understand the development and present situation of 19 years Chinese medicine systematic review（ SR）/Meta analysis in Chinese and in English. Methods The authors systematically retrieved Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Pub Med

Web of knowledge

China National Knowledge Infrastructure

Chinese Biological Medical Literature Database on disc

Wan Fang Data

VIP Data

Cochrane register and PROSPERO Registration Platform. All published Chinese medicine SR/Meta analysis both in Chinese and in English were included.Information extraction table was designed. Papers’ authors

publishing age

journal

institution

disease

published number of same subjects in the same year and registration status

etc. were calculated. Results Totally

2460 published papers were included

1971 papers in Chinese

489 papers in English. After the year of 2004

number of Chinese medicine SR/Meta analysis increased significantly. Totally 6961 authors at home and abroad were referred.The authors with top 10 of published number in Chinese published totally 256 papers

covering 12. 99% of Chinese papers. The largest number of single author published 21 papers. In the authors with top 10 of published number in English

5 persons were foreign researchers. These 10 authors published 182 papers

covering 37. 22 % of English papers. Totally

11 authors published 148 papers of intervention SR/Meta analysis in Chinese alone. Included Chinese papers were from 363 journals. Top 10 journals were all journals of Chinese medicine or evidence based medicine. English papers were from 178 journals. Published paper number of top 10 journals was 249

covering 50. 92%of English papers. Top 5 Chinese medicine universities or academy with most published paper number were Tianjin University of Chinese Medicine（ 136 papers

6. 90%）

Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine（ 86 papers

4. 36%）

Beijing University of Chinese Medicine（ 86 papers

4. 36%）

Chengdu University of Chinese Medicine（ 61 papers

3. 09%） and China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences（ 55 papers

2. 79%）. Chinese papers referred 179 diseases; stroke（ 10. 60%）

coronary heart disease（ 8. 37%） and diabetes（ 3. 90%） were the top three. English papers referred 135 diseases; stroke（ 5. 32%）

coronary heart disease（ 4. 70%） and hypertension（ 2. 86%） were the top three. Top 10 diseases published in Chinese and English papers covered 1/3 of all papers;some Chinese papers chose the topic repeatedly. By the end of June in 2015

54 researches had registered which were all English papers. Conclusion SR/Meta analysis method was widely used in Chinese medicine field. A number of active experts

institutions and journals sprang up. There were large number of Chinese papers

but some of them had problems including lack of research rigorism

choosing topic repeatedly

contradictory results

different choice of outcome index

etc.