Abstract:

The reference is an import symbol to weight the degree of absorbing the extraneous information and science exchange. Applying the bibliometrics method, the author statistical analyzed the references for the 16 kinds of core journals of agricultural economics (average amount, the type, the variation coefficient, the Chinese-English, yearly distribution). It obtained the characteristics of the references. The analysis result indicated that the articles in the core journals of agricultural economics should pay more attention to the references; further enhance the ability of absorbing the domestic and foreign advanced scientific and technical achievements; improve the citation of the newest references.