Abstract:

For real-time understanding of the present status and forward trends of domestic and international food safety research and maintaining technological competitiveness, this paper conducts the biblio-metrology research about literature relating to food safety in Web of Science Citation Database of ISI Web of Knowledge, analysing the present status of international and domestic research with comparative studies, and comes to two conclusions: first, the number of global food safety papers in recent years has consistently been in the continued growth momentum, the momentum will continue in the future, this trend of China is the same as the world’s ; second, the research of China's food safety is still far behind the advanced level, mainly reflected in the total number of papers have been cited and the number of each paper has been cited.