Abstract:Taking the papers published in Oilfield Chemistry during 2006 to 2010 as the data source, by means of the bibliometric method, the published article volume, citation quantity, year distribution of citations, citations language and citation type were analyzed statistically, which provided quantitative basis to further enhance the quality of journals. The results showed that 521 papers were published during 5 years which the published article volume increased every year. The citation quantity was of 4830, the average citation rate was of 99.04%, and the average number of citations per article was of 9.27. The year distribution of citations focused on 10 years before the papers published. The average Price Index was of 34.62%. Citations languages were mainly Chinese and English. The citations in Chinese covered 72.90% with 3521 pieces, and that in English covered 27.02% with 1305 pieces. The main type of citations was journal literature which covered 74.16% of the total citations with 3582 pieces. The citations form book covered 9.50% with 459 pieces, patent literature covered 4.41% with 213 pieces and SPE paper covered 7.93% with 383 pieces. Network resources were not quoted.