Abstract: The objective is to further understand the published papers of the Institute of Bast Fiber Crops (IBFC) of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) in recent years and provide decision-making references for the scientific research management. In this paper, the academic journal pool of China HowNet (CNKI) was chosen as the statistical source and the published papers of the institute during 2008-2017 were applied for the statistical analysis in several aspects, such as the number of published papers, the article topics, research level, subject distribution, fund support, published journals, keywords, and so on. Results showed that the institute published 584 papers during the period, which were mainly supported by the fund of NSFC, national sci-tech support plan and national high-tech research and development projects (863). Furthermore, a large number of papers which were closely related to the bast crops of ramie, flax and kenaf were published in Plant Fiber Sciences in China, which was one of the professional journals, and the research contents involved lots of aspects, such as the germplasm resources, genetic diversity, variety breeding, feed utilization, and so on. Although the number of published papers is considerable, high-quality papers (such as the papers included in the database of CSCD) are still insufficient, indicating that there is a room for improving the research enthusiasm and potential of the sci-tech professionals in the institute.