Abstract:

The papers correlated with food science research published in China during 2000—2011 were retrieved based on
database extended version of the Science Citation Index (SCI-E). Statistical analysis on the bibliometric search results was
conducted from the published year of the paper, document type and language, source journals, disciplines, research institutes
and cited papers. The results showed that the number of papers correlated with food science research in China revealed a rapid
increase during 2000—2011. Among these published papers, most papers were written in English. The major disciplines of the
published papers are food science & technology and applied chemistry. The most important journals of the published papers are
the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry and Food Chemistry. The organization of the most published papers is Chinese
Academy of Sciences. The average cited frequency of the published papers is more than 10 times.

Key words: bibliometrics, food science, science citation index