The third High-Quality Development Conference of Traditional Chinese Medicine was held successfully from April 10 to 12 at the Wuzhen Internet International Convention and Exhibition Center in Zhejiang province. The conference revealed “The World Top 50 High Impact Research of Traditional Medicine". Among them, 37 were independently conducted by Chinese researchers, 10 as international collaborations involving entities from the US, France, South Korea, the UK, and Ireland, with China leading as the primary collaborator, and 3 by international researchers from Germany, Canada, the UK, and the USA.

This selection activity was organized by Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine，Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China，China Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Wolters Kluwer. The selection was conducted from five dimensions: journal influence, article influence, author influence, public influence, and academic influence. These researches were selected by indexing in databases, expert recommendations, and self-recommendations. The final selection process included multiple stages such as online public voting, peer expert voting, and expert consensus. By comprehensively evaluating, a total of 50 researches were ultimately selected. The aim of the activity is conducive to promoting international cooperation and exchange, and commercialization of scientific and technological achievements.