Abstract: Objective To study the content and characteristics on literatures of pharmacy services, and to illustrate the development and trends on pharmaceutical service. Methods We searched the literature with the key words of pharmacy services or pharmaceutical care, analyzed the constitution ratio on the literature key words, subject name, journal name, research grant funds, research-level ,authors and so on. Results A total of 4 258 valid documents were retrieved in CHKD, 6 506 ones in WOS (web of science). Literature on pharmacy services increased significantly in China, but there was one obviously increasing trend a decade later than on abroad. Articles were contributed by many research units, but there was one relative concentration. The Domestic and foreign high-quoted documents have different focuses. Conclusion Domestic studies on pharmaceutical service started lately and has developed rapidly but need to be broadened and deepened in the contents.

Key words: pharmaceutical service, bibliometric analysis, comparation