Abstract:

In this paper, the citation data (2006-2007) of JOURNAL OF FISHERY SICENCES OF CHINA (JFSC) is analyzed according to the information provided by CHINESE S&T JOURNAL CITATION REPORTS 2006-2007. The results show that the number of citing journals to JFSC was 141 and 166 in 2006 and 2007, respectively. The total cited frequency of 2006 and 2007 was 2133 times, which was more than that of 2004 and 2005 by 991 times. The highest citing frequency to a single paper was 22 times, and among the top 10 highest cited papers, those about fish disease, immunology and genetics dominated, which was different from the result of 2004-2005, where the papers on ecology and environment dominated. The conclusion is that the citation analysis can provide a direction for the editors to organize the articles for their journals according to the change of hot-topic research from the cited data and researchers also can get some suggestions from the results.