From such aspects as articles

authors

author ’ s affiliations distribution

references and key words

statistical analysis on 1 363papers published in Thermal Power Generationfrom 2009 to 2012was performed.The investigation indicated that

this journal published about 28.5articles per issue

and most of them presented the engineering technologies.However

the proportion of papers reporting thermal energy thoeries increased year by year.During the past four years

1 118 authors had written articles for Thermal Power Generation

among which 33authors had written more than 3papers.The average number of authors / affiliations signing name on one paper was 3.5 / 1.5

and the average author / affiliation collaboration rate reached 85.03% / 44.68%

respectively.More than 67% of the papers were from colleges and research institutes.Averagely

about 5.3references appeared in one article.Above 63%of the references were journal articles and dissertations

and the proportion of quoting books decreased.Most of the references were published about 3to 8years ago.The journals quoting or being quoted by Thermal Power Generation were all the ones with high quality in energy and power engineering or electrotechnology.The average number of key words per article was 5.3.Furthermore

on the basis of co-occurrence key words analysis method

the key words appeared in one paper with high co-occurrence frequency were listed.Moreover

against the problems occurred in Thermal Power Generation

some suggestions were put forward.