A statistic analysis of 1197 articles published in《Thermal Power Generation》during years from 2001 to 2005 has been carried out. Results of statistics show that the average number of published articles per issue is 24.9 during the five years

and contents of many articles laying stress on technical appliction. The articles in two columns of Tecnical Exchange and Experience Introduction account for 60. 2% of the total. There are 995 authors who have published articles as the first author

147 of them are core authors

signatures of co - authors appeared 3699 person - times. The average cooperative degree is 3

09

the cooperative rate accounting for 74

3 54. The authors arc mainly from colleges and universities

electric power enterprises

and scientific research institutions. The published articles submitted from scientific reseach institutions account for 49. 3%. The references citated reach 4277

the average reference number per article to be 3. 5.