Citation Analysis and Study on China Safety Science Journal from 2000 to 2004

The quotation statistical analysis is an extremely important method in literature metrology, which appraisals the quality of science and technology periodical and understands the rules of technical personnel using the specialized literature. China Safety Science Journal is taken as the investigation object. The number of articles, the quotation quantity, quoted literature category, the language of quotation, the quantity of quotation itself and the yearly distribution of this publication in 5 years from 2000 to 2004 are counted. Statistical results show that the quotation rate is 97.5%, average quotation per article 5.1, quotation rate of periodical paper 45.1%, quotation rate of books literature 41.4%, quotation rate of articles in Chinese 86%, quotation rate of articles in English 13%, the Pryse index 53.80% and the rate of quotation itself 6.49%. Through quantitative analysis of those statistical results, views in some aspects of Chinese Security Scientific Journal, such as the editorial quality, the academic authority, rules of safety personnel using the technical publications and the books and information service in resource construction of safety science are proposed.