For a doctor, if you can predict in advance whether the patient will have some unknown outcomes, then the clinical work will become much smoother, such as:

If the drug resistance of patients with malignant tumor can be predicted in advance, then medication can be avoided in advance.

If we can predict that a patient may bleed heavily during the operation, we will make more preparations before the operation.

As a quantitative tool for risk and benefit assessment, clinical prediction model can provide more objective and accurate information for doctors, patients and health managers to make decisions. For this reason, articles related to clinical prediction models can often be published in SCI journals with high scores.

Scientific citation index (SCI)

Scientific Citation Index (SCI) is a citation database established by eugene garfield of institute for scientific information (ISI) in Philadelphia, USA on 1957. SCI (Science Citation Index), EI (Engineering Index) and ISTP (Science and Technology Conference Index) are three world-famous retrieval systems for scientific documents, which are internationally recognized as the main retrieval tools for scientific statistics and scientific evaluation.

In February 2020, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Science and Technology issued "Several Opinions on Standardizing the Use of Relevant Indicators of SCI Papers in Colleges and Universities and Establishing Correct Evaluation Orientation". This document should break the "SCI supremacy" of papers, take this as a breakthrough, take practical measures with strong pertinence and operability, break the "paper-only theory" and establish a correct evaluation orientation.