Abstract: A statistic analysis of 11491 papers published in Food Science during 2001－2010 in terms of publishing volume, section features, funding supports, citation number, total citation frequency and impact factor was done based on the Chinese Journal Full-text Database, the CNJI Chinese Citation Database, the China Science and Technology Journal Citation Reports, and the Chinese Science Documentation Service System by means of bibliometrics to understand some development rules of Food Science over the last decade. The statistical results showed that this journal,s publishing volume increased year by year and provided growing information. This journal consisted of reasonable and constant sections. A growing number of funding supported papers were published in this journal. Moreover, the average number of citation a published paper showed stable growth. This journal ranked increasingly higher by impact factor and total citation frequency, and always ranked first among the journals in the field of light industry and textile. From these results, it can be concluded that Food Science, publishing high quality papers, not only provides one of the most important information sources in food science in China, but also is a leading authoritative journal.

Key words: Food Science, analysis of published articles, bibliometries