Statistical Analysis and Evaluation of Papers Related to Domestic and International Agriculture on CNKI from 2008 to 2012

The paper intended to make a systematic research of all journal papers related to domestic and international agriculture on China National Knowledge Infrastructure data(CNKI)from 2008 to 2012 by means of quantificational analysis with the help of bibliometrics and statistical software.The analysis and evaluation of all papers were done in terms of their quantity,journal levels,locations,fund categories and net communication impact.The results showed that firstly,research of Chinese agriculture was better than that of foreign agriculture for Chinese scholars in terms of quantity,high citation frequency and download frequency of papers;secondly,papers were primarily published in general journals,with only a small number of them published in some key journals,even less in SCI and EI journals;thirdly,according to the papers,researches of Chinese agriculture were relatively balanced in fundamental research and application study,with slightly more stress on basic research in agriculture,while those researches of foreign agriculture absolutely focused on agricultural economy;fourthly,in terms of research level,domestic literature concentrated on fundamental research,with small proportion of papers involving professional skills and guidance,while foreign literature focused on professional guidance;fifthly,from author group,most authors were from institutions of higher learning;finally,in terms of contents of papers,they were mainly discussing low carbon agriculture,agricultural environment,grain issues,villages,famers and agricultural product price.